If conservatives in the UK are royalists, why are conservatives in the USA Republicans?

American and English politics diverged too much after the Revolution too compare them in that straight forward a manner.

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A better way to phrase it is that the terms "left" and "right" when used in a political sense require a setting in order to have any inherent meaning, and since the requisite political backdrop varies from nation to nation what constitutes "left" and "right" changes in relation to the political backdrop of each nation/state in which the terminology is applied.

The Republican party was formed in the 1850s, from the ruins of the Whig party, with the prime objective of the Abolition of Slavery. Anti-slavery Whigs and Free Soil Democrats formed the Republican party in 1854. The Whigs were not a conservative party, they were progressive and liberal. The Republican party was considered quite radical at the time. When in power, the Republican changed the US constitution to abolish slavery, granted political and civil rights to blacks, and expropriated the Southern plantations. The Southern Democrats at the time were the conservatives at the time, as they tried to preserve their right to slavery (permitted in the American constitution). The Democrats did not become a progressive party until the time of FDR (in the 1920s some Southern states, which had Democrat governments, outlawed the teaching of evolution). Until then the Republicans were the less conservative party.

Basically the Republicans of today are not the same as the Republicans of the 1850s. Today's Republicans are "conservative" in relation to the capitalist system. The original Republicans were not conservative toward the American political system, because they radically changed it.

Well, as it happens our parties (i'm from England) don't quite match up with the american parties.

The different political policies and viewpoints aren't split up in the same way. So a republican would agree with some conservative policies, some liberal, and some labour.

However, having said that, generally speaking a republican, being right wing, would side with the conservatives, and a democrat, being left wing, would side with labour.

[side note - and anyone who was unpatriotic and a cowardly pacifist would side with the liberals]

All this shows is that whether or not you are right or left wing has little to do with whether you support a monarchy or a republic. There have been plenty of left wing dictators and plenty of right wing dictators. The same applies to democracies.

It's been my experience that everyone in america supports the idea of having a republic. Very few americans would want a dictatorship or a monarchy. Democrats aren't against having a republic as far as i can tell. The names Republicans and Democrats are just a result of the historical origins of the parties.

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American conservatism is very different from European conservatism, or from conservatism traditionally understood. For one thing, conservatism in this country is "modern," and for another, it is "American." Ours is not the "throne and altar" conservatism that once defined European conservatism, and that is still characteristic of many Europeans on the right. Being a conservative in America means conserving the principles of the American Revolution. Paradoxically, American conservatism seeks to conserve a certain kind of liberalism. It means fighting to uphold the classical liberalism of the founding from assault by liberalism of a different sort.

Conservative means to conserve old values and traditions.

In America the old value is Republicanism, in Britain the old value is Royalism.

An American Conservative would vote conservative/tory or a party more conservative than them.

There is a fundamental flaw in your reasoning.

The flaw is that you assume that there is some sort of connection between Europen Politics and American Politics.

American Politics developed over the period from approximately 1640 to 1900 with very little influence from European politics.

As communication improved there was some influence from Europen Politics.

Essentially the modern left in The United States of America gets much of it's politics from Europe.

The conservatives in The United States of America reject European Politics.

Remember the Revolution that we fought in 1776 was against Europen Politics.

Our Constitution is a rejection of European Politics.

Conservatives support our Constitution and reject European politics.

Many Democrats would feel comfortable being Conservatives in the United Kingdom, I am for one. The vast majority of Republicans would probably be Tories.

most conservatives left the Republican party years ago

He'd join the Tories, I believe.