Conservatives are not capitalist

The idea that conservatism and capitalism go together was a myth concocted by William F Buckley, Junior, in order to shore up the shoddy intellectual foundations of traditionalist sentiment. It was so effective that the party faithful believe it of themselves even though they are truly protectionists and economic populists. Hardly the kind who would champion the free flow of capital and labor across borders. I mean, seriously, who do you think is giving all those immigrants all those jobs? It also probably helped to foster the perceived association between conservatism and capitalism when communism arose as an atheist ideology. Surely, the average opium-smoking religionist must have convinced themselves that they should rightly side with capitalism in that false binary just as much as some Vietnam War protesters thought that communism was the correct alternative to the US war machine or how some opponents of the genocide in Gaza believe they must ally themselves with Hamas. It's turtles all the way down.