Because if they were to admit to any of the former, they'd also have to admit that they failed to resist the move towards them for the past 70 years.

If there's one thing which is a constant for western conservatives, is that they lack any semblance of a spine. At best they're trying to score minor, irrelevant victories and at worst they're pushing the degeneracy themselves under the guise of "we need to get with the times".