[Nullabillity]

Fundamentally, conservatism is about conserving (and reinforcing) existing power structures. Everything else is just set dressing.

[goatlover]

Conservatives are currently dismantling the Federal bureaucracy, not conserving it.

[ImPostingOnHN]

The federal bureaucracy isn't the power structure, it's a threat to the power structure, hence it being dismantled by the power structure.

[Nullabillity]

In order to conserve (well, further entrench) the power of the oligarchy.