This is so true for the housing crisis. Conservative NIMBYs will be like "deregulation good!" and "free market good!", but then they religiously show up to any and all city hall meetings to rant and rave about how we need to use heavy-handed regulations to protect "historic" parking lots and the "neighborhood character".
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After "historic" I expected a lot of things like houses, trees, churches, etc, but parking lots wasn't one of them
Conservatives are all about what benefits them and them only. If it also benefits people they don't like, then it's not good enough. If it comes at the cost of others, even better, but it's all about privilege. They don't have fixed ideological positions like 'free market over regulation, always and everywhere'. If the free market gives them what they want, they favour it. If the free market decides in a way that doesn't benefit them, they're against it. If regulation gives them what they want, regulation is good. If regulation works against them, regulation is bad.
That's literally all there is to it.