Having conservative political views is not an issue, and it should not be. Wanting a smaller, more efficient government is not in itself bad. Wanting tax cuts is not in itself bad. Wanting to reduce illegal immigration is not in itself bad. Being for a reduction in government spending is not in itself bad. Being for the right to bear arms is not in itself bad.
My issue isn't with conservatism – it is with the current American republican party and other far-right parties such as the Dutch PVV. These parties have taken conservative standpoints to cartoonish extremes and primarily rely on hate for 'the other'. Hate for immigrants. Hate for Muslims. Hate for African-Americans pointing out the existence of institutional racism through peaceful protest. Hate for the 'elite scientists' who point out that climate change is man-made. Hate for anyone who proposes anything that could possibly resemble any form of regulation on anything to do with guns. Hate for LGBTQ+-people fighting for their rights.
The republican party claims to be 'against identity politics', yet consistently engages in them through their fostering of hate for 'the other' and their push for legislation that allows discrimination against / actively discriminates against minorities.
Of course, not everyone who votes for the republican party actively hates all or any of those people or groups, but in voting for the republican party, you are voting for the party that actively feeds into this hate. You are voting for the party that will seek to actively push legislation that hurts the weakest among us so that they can cash in on that hate. Your vote for them is an acceptance of this hate. I don't feel that that is justifiable in any way.
At the same time, they also completely fail to propose any actual solutions to the problems they inflated, and some of their legislative proposals are in direct conflict with general conservative views. Take the border wall proposal for example. The republican party is against illegal immigration and against government spending, yet Trump's proposal to build a multibillion-dollar border wall that would do very little to actually stop illegal immigration is popular with republican party voters. This is the 'hate for the other' directly overriding a core conservative tenet.
So my problem isn't with conservative political views, it is with the American republican party and the way the thrive on hate. You voting for that party – even if you do it purely for a genuine conservative tenet you believe them to still uphold – indicates to me that you are willing to accept that hate, and that is not something I can just ignore.