"...solitary, mean, nasty, brutish, and short."
There are well founded grounds for this interpretation, going back to before the founding.
You may say that that is not constitutional conservatism, which after all was representative, and required minimal property qualifications.
Our constitutional conservatism, in that sense, is really what liberalism has always meant elsewhere.
So, what happened to actual conservatives, conservatives in the sense of conservative at the time of the founding and the American Rebellion?
They were usually called royalists, Whigs or Tories, whether they favored an aristocracy, a monarchy, or both.
They emigrated and never came back.
There was no successful counterrevolution here, as there was in the rest of Western Civilization, including France, the second pariah state I previously had mentioned.
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