3. Conservatism has a lot more intellectual cohesion (what was, is good; what was is natural (hierarchy, injustice). Leftism, defined more by a committment to social justice, already starts the race off at a disadvanatge: What is justice? How do we achieve that?
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The left truly has more work to do because we are fighting against the more empowered position.
There's been a lot of handwringing about "moral purity" and "virtue signaling" on the left, and sure, not saying those things don't happen, but also what you said -- the right already has the advantage.
Makes them easy to manipulate.
What twigged me to this though was second-wave feminists marching with the Catholic Church and literal Nazis. It's the only thing they all share.