Needlessly serious take: the conservative worldview is loyalism. There are no objective means for evaluating claims. You can only accept or reject them based on interpersonal trust.
So the negation of “doubt everything” isn’t “don’t doubt everything.” It’s “doubt nothing.” Calling a service trustworthy is not a conditional judgement. It’s a label that means, whatever they say must be right. Reasons don’t exist. None of these labels, ours or theirs, are consistent moral judgements, or falsifiable claims. They’re allegiance. They’re statements of loyalty. They’re slogans.
We keep searching for ‘what conservatives really believe.’ But conservatives don’t believe things. Conservatives believe people.
This is every frustrating dead-end conversation you’ve had about Wikipedia, or CDC advice, or Elon Musk. Loyalists are not arguing. Argument is a process. There are rules. Rationally working from premises to conclusions is visibly not the brain activity they are engaged in. Any similarity is mimicry, like claiming “facts and logic” are on your side, or appealing to “common sense.” Disproving those words will never change anything. They’ll pick different words for the same conclusion. That’s all they think we’re doing. That’s all they think there is.