I’ll take a step back even further, and pontificate my own point of view.

Modern conservatism, at its core, is the natural set of beliefs that well-adjusted humans have.

• Family is good, and I should support my family.
• Having children is good, and we should have more children.
• Our society is good. We should celebrate our anscestors and carry on our traditions.
• We should defend our society and traditions from outsiders and those who wish to tear it down.
• There is a Great Force, which loves us and is on our side.
• Bad things generally happen to bad people and good things generally happen to good people. So if good things are happening for a person, they are probably good, and if bad things are happening to a person, they are probably bad.
• When obviously bad things happen to a good person or vice versa, it is because the Great Force has a plan for an even better future which we are ignorant of by virtue of our weakness.
• Gaining wealth and power is good.
• Because our leaders are wealthy and powerful, they must be good people.
• If our leader is obviously not a good person, it is because the Great Force has a plan for them to make the future better for us.
• Large groups of outsiders are dangerous, and are not to be trusted. If they encroach on our territory or take our resources, we should fight them.
• If we are controlled by outsiders, this is bad, and we should fight them.
• Our people are what is important to us. Outsiders should be left to handle their own problems.
• The roles we have in society give us value. People who fulfill their roles well should be celebrated. People who do not fulfill their roles should be rejected.
• The things I learned as a child are true.

With this set of beliefs, a human will fit in to any society and role they end up in; will work to support, grow, and defend that society; and will create as many children as possible. This is a fairly obvious blueprint for the evolutionary fitness of an individual, and the continued existance of a society. And this explains why conservatism is such a universal phenomenon around the world - it is the expression of our natural human instincts.

It is also why conservatives always seem to have a monopoly on “common sense” - a liberal’s common sense still requires you to think. A conservative’s common sense goes straight to your gut. And it explains why conservatives are so good at working together: liberals must find an intellectual basis of agreement before they work together; conservatives already know they should work together, since they see other conservatives have their same base emotional feelings. Plus they are part of the same in-group.