what is different between republican and conservative ?
Conservatives like the status quo and tolerate it far longer than is wise or safe.
Republicans are taking their party back from Conservative ruling elites.
That's just stupid...
Yeah, sure it is... all evidence to the contrary not withstanding.
...Liberals have no concept of conservativism, it's like asking a child to explain relativity...
MOST folks are unable to serve-up anything more than a man-on-the-street meme on those definitions, anyway.
So what?
...OP: Bear in mind that discussing ideologies you must take the culture into account. a conservative in the people's republic of north korea isn't the same as a conservative in the US. The US is founded on a completely different set of principles...
Doesn't make much difference to the Average American.
And it is the Republican-leaning element within the Average American demographic that is engaged in a Populist Rebellion against its Establishment (ruling elites).
Will that momentum be sustained throughout 2016?
No clue.
Has it been profound and substantive and omnipresent and persistent throughout 2015, and early 2016?
Yep... like nothing we've seen in Living Memory.
...For the US, conservatives believe is changing what needs to be changed and not fixing what isn't broke. It's a ideology of look before you leap. You weigh the consequences of doing xyz. Will it achieve your goals? At what cost? Is the cost too high for the end result? When people mature they tend to become more conservative, it comes from an increased understanding of the world around you...
Yes. Winston Churchill was correct about youth and age and liberalism and conservatism.
As for the rest, you describe 'Caution" - a trait resident in the minds of vast numbers of people regardless of their political leanings. You deal in false stereotypes yourself.
...Republicans are party members and are all over the map as far as what they believe, most are more conservative than liberals. Liberals pretty much own the Democratic party these days. So much so there's little to no distinction between them and socialists...
We have a core of lifelong Pubs. We have a core of lifelong Dems. And we have a vast, wiggling mass that goes one way or the other, based on the circumstances du jour.
...Liberalsim is a leap before you look ideology, based on emotion. They are devout and adhere to their beliefs in a religious manner. Results, cost, the impact to others are things they do not consider. If it feels right, it's right. If something tugs on their heart strings they want to make a law. Liberals are anything but liberal, they are highly intolerant to opposing views and throw temper tantrums in the face of them. Liberals are adults that never grew up.
For the most part, I agree with your assessment of Liberals, but if you engage in stereotyping for one side, you must expect it directed at the other side, as well.
But I stand by my original observation.
The rank-and-file wriggling mass in the middle, that are registered Republicans, have served-up a Populist Rebellion against their more Conservative core, and are in the process of seizing the party out from Conservative control. One need look no further than the daily news on your television set to realize the truth of that conclusion.
This should inform the slow, plodding Core that their approach isn't working, and that they need to tweak the mission and related tactics and timing and force, in order to remain in business without breaking away and hanging-up a new shingle - an alternative that would be doomed to failure and an ignominious political death.
Bottom line... Conservatives can't survive, politically, without the middle-ground rank-and-file, and that very rank-and-file is presently engaged in Rebellion.
Bon apetit... enjoy.