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Conservatism and right wing are the same thing, shit for brains. The rest of your post is equally idiotic, but I don't have all day to point out your errors.This is also a common misconception. The ones who believe in the free market and limited government are conservatives, not the right wing; there's a difference.
The right wing generally does not believe that everyone should be equal. That sounds worse than it is, because for most of all of our lives, the vast majority of the right wing has been conservatives, who mostly believe in the rewards of hard work, going back to Jamestown's quintessentially American "He who works, eats" ideal, which has a central place in our American identity. Don't tax me, because I earned this money and deserve to keep it; don't tell me what to do, because I follow the law and deserve my own freedom; don't regulate me because I worked hard for this business and deserve to see its success; and so on. Fair enough, it's a core value.
But there is another kind of right-winger, those on the extremes who believe they deserve more social rewards based on their majority status, whether ethnic or religious or some other demographic. This is where you find white supremacy ("White people deserve more"), Christian nationalists ("Christian people deserve more"), and fascists, who think that members of The Party deserve more than others because they are the only "True Americans" (or whatever nation).
They're definitely not conservatives, but they're also not liberals; they are something else, but they definitely come from the far, far right.