No but it matters. The return to an idealized past is fascist politics because it is not really a “return”, since the “idealized past” is an unreachable fiction. So by necessity, it is a radical departure from the present towards an idealist future.

Conservatism is, well conservative. It thinks that things are the way they are out of a necessity beyond the fickle whims of this or that person. And therefore change enacted by people is always suspect because it doesn’t understand that necessity. Chesterton’s fence is the perfect model.

Now both conservatism and fascism are reactionary in relation to progressivism. But the deep distrust you see among some traditional conservatives towards Trump is no accident and it is not an indication of some “strong moral core”. It is a natural response of true conservatism in the face of the radical reactionary politics of fascism.

It’s not just splitting hairs because this is an important fault line in the enemy camp that can be leveraged to create cracks.