Firstly you have no sources stating it s primarily There are many sources which state it has gained such a connotation in addition to what it used to be but none claim primarily Two obviously ultraliberal sources dedicate very short sentences to it stating it s a pejorative they are WP FRINGE and WP BIASED You removed 9 sources of which none were dictionaries The dictionary would be tenth But Allan Bloom wasn t a conservative as we know the term He held academically traditional views as to what should be taught in schools He was against educational change Using words like conservative is ambiguous breaking WP DISAMBIG You call academic sources defining the term as something akin a philosophy and not as a simple pejorative scattered usages Mind you the literally dozen sources I gave you were from the first two pages of the academic search engine I used The term s use by people other than conservatives is well documented as well Finally not as a source but as an anecdote so don t bust your balls on Monday I saw Colbert use it non pejoratively on his new talkshow