I think the problem is that both conservatism and liberalism have been deformed by Republican and Democratic party politics. The issue is that Edmund Burke's conservatism (respect for tradition) got conflated with usually evangelical American sexual "morality" (homophobia, etc.), as well as the Republican party's big-business orientation. Problem is that big business has always been about destroying tradition in the name of profit, productivity, efficiency (to quote Marx, all that is solid melts into air), which global neoliberalism has just intensified. And when Bush got into nation-invading and nation-"building" ... well, that's just about as opposite from conservatism as one could get. Trump is an incoherent "answer" to a toxic party politics that ultimately is more about oligarchy and big donors than it is about anything like a coherent political philosophy.