I'M NOT SURE THAT ALBERT JAY NOCK WAS ...

a conservative, despite the title of his main political work, Our Enemy, The State. For starters, he was an agnostic and took a dim view of the Catholic Church before the Protestant Reformation, something modern American conservatives should consider:

It has been profoundly interesting to me to observe how closely the nationalist State's technique of conditioning its citizens into an attitude of docile servility follows that of the mediæval Church. Up to the sixteenth century the Church was the great instrument of exploitation, as the State is now. The individual was born into the Church, and the Church's superintendence regulated every step of his daily existence as long as he lived. Its coercions, interferences and exactions were limited only by calculation of what the traffic would bear. In pursuance of its purposes it devised an elaborate system of conditioning; and in the sixteenth century, when the nationalist State took over its purposes and hamstrung its competition, it also took over its technique of cultivating obedience and docility in its subjects.

SOURCE: Memoirs of a Superfluous Man by Albert Jay Nock, page 281.