Why do conservatives always take the Crazy Train?   

The quick answer is they want to eliminate change and return to a past they sentimentalize and only remember the good things as typical. The bad things are generally viewd as separate, random event not likely to reoccur.

It was good to be a free, white male in them there old days. Women, children and other ethnicities had lesser power and influence, expected to stay in their place. In Archie Bunker's words  "Stifle, Edith, Stifle!"