"Conservative" once meant politics parties that presumed that the current rules, the current norms worked well and preferred slow change. It sounds to me as if

"Conservative" once meant politics parties that presumed that the current rules, the current norms worked well and preferred slow change. It sounds to me as if the word will lose that meaning in the US completely quite soon, and come to mean something in the vicinity of "racist and/or deceitful". Sigh.