Let's be frank, most people characterized as on the "Right" are not conservative.
They are reactionaries, libertarians and oligarchs, but not conservative.
Conservatives have basic principles
1) respect for tradition, i.e., the Constitution, rule of law, a honest appraisal of American history, warts and all
2) skeptical but not opposed to Government, i.e. in favor of incremental change, checks and balances, accountability, federalism
3) balance individual rights and responsibilities, skeptical of "rights" talk, legal rights are based in the Constitution, otherwise they must be gained and protected through the political system, not created by activist judges on the Left or the Right.
So if you believe American was established as a Christian country, you are a reactionary, harking back to an imaginary past, b/c the Founding Fathers were a mixed bag of devout Christians (Anglicans, Evangelicals, Catholics, etc.), skeptical Christians, Deists and some closet atheists (David Hume, the atheist Scottish Philosopher was widely read by the Founding Fathers). The first amendment was supported by evangelicals who objected to a state supported Church.
Same way if you believe this country was founded on free markets without government interference, you are a Reactionary, b/c government regulation of business was universal in colonial times and in the early Republic.
And so on. Most of what are called "conservative principles" are actually a reversion to the mores of the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, a combination of Victorian moralism, laissez-faire capitalism and corporatist government. And the reaction to that era lead to a period of government activism at the state and federal level, the "Progressive Era."