A long standing tenet of conservative thought is that a good society depends in large part on good behavior.

In this perspective, society is always at risk of being degraded and collapsing into chaotic brutality - preventing that is the primary reason to have rules and give others the power to enforce them. But we all ought to behave decently, because that's what good citizens do.

Conservatives often insisted upon this to repressive extremes, such as criminalizing the use of swear words in the presence of women.

Now we see so-called conservatives glorying in the epically anti-social behavior of Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, and Lauren Boebert, who let her date grope her breasts in a (non-porn) theater, groped his manhood in return, and generally behaved with so little social decency that she was forced to leave.

Is this really what conservatives today want, a society without rules or mores for basic socially decent behavior? Is the primary conservative value now to be maximally socially offensive, to actively promote the degradation of society that conservatives used to oppose?