&gt; conservative stories which aren&#x27;t corroborated by mainstream sources.<p>Conservativism <i>is</i> mainstream. Part of the problem is that many people who are not conservative have been lead to believe that it is a marginal&#x2F;extreme ideology. It is not. It may be a majority ideology, but it is at a bare minimum a the second most common.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth I don&#x27;t consider myself a conservative.