Conservatives- Are they being out-flanked?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. Socialism/Communism in their vernacular is a stand-in for a more basic idea

Which is an animosity toward the idea of 'taxing people who work and using it to help people who don't work', aka 'wealth redistribution'

This is such an animating principle to conservatism because these peoples brains are instinctively wired to believe that there is a 'natural order' .. a hierarchy to human society, that must not be violated.

It is entirely easy to manipulate these folks simply by convincing them that you (the manipulator) is fundamentally 'against' the idea that anything should being 'taken from them' and 'given to the less deserving'. Doesn't have to money, it can also be prestige, power, and privilege (including sexual/reproductive privilege).

Literally anyone who conveys to them a believe in the sanctity of this basic principle will be accepted (mostly uncritically). Even if they're foreign actors.