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ellis123 posted...

Conservatives inherently wish for the status quo to be unchanged. Thus they are against anything that be considered radical.

This is not a workable definition of radical or conservative. Radical can mean either extreme or extreme and leftwing, but the core meaning common to both is extreme.

Sometimes, the status quo can be radical (meaning extreme). For example, in the antebellum South, the US had one of the worst forms of widespread, racialized chattel slavery in human history. That was a radical form of organizing society. Maintaining that was radical. Starting a Civil War to maintain that system was radical. Yet conservatives were the ones who did that.

Later, Gilded Age capitalism was the status quo. The government was bombing workers for trying to go on strike, there was a huge gap between rich and poor, the working class was almost powerless. That was a radical state of society, and conservatives supported it.

Now, you have conservatives supporting criminalizing abortion, removing accurate history and scientific education from schools, more police power, no worker protections, more concentration of wealth and political power in the hands of the wealthy, restriction of voting rights, moving towards white Christian nationalist rhetoric and policy, and offering support to anti-democratic movements and politicians. That's radical, conservatives support it.