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>>17965112
There are two trends I could put down.

The first is that Conservatism arguably never really recovered from WW2, as the Anglo-American Conservative class began eating their own tail for being potentially too radical. This immediately doomed them from the onset because any conservative to reactionary movement will fail unless they make a synthesis with revolutionary politics and carve out a third way like Napoleon and Mussolini did.

The second is that particularly in America, you need to pander to groups to get elected. Many 'intellectual' conservatives decided to pander to American Evangelicals, who had at that point were members of a sect 4 times doubled down from the Authority in Christianity originally found in the Catholic Church. Over time, their mask became them and the anti-intellectual sentiments boiled over.