Hard question. Globally, "contemporary conservatives" are sometimes economic nationalists who face off against neoliberal globalists. Sometimes they are just people who resist the transformation of all value into market value--they want to preserve ethical and religious traditions. Sometimes they are anti-immigration; sometimes not. They seem to be a number of different things. One of the few international leaders who makes political and intellectual sense to me (in the sense of being comprehensible) is Angela Merkel--a Christian Democrat, which is, in a way, a kind of conservative liberal. 

In this country, it is even more confusing. The anti-conservative DT has the overwhelming support of conservatives. How is that to be explained?