For American conservatives, how sacred is the Constitution really?

I’ve been studying politics for decades, and one thing that was always remarkable to me was how strongly and how often conservatives would shoot down ideas that they perceived as violating the letter or spirit of the US constitution.

Now I’m questioning if that was sincere, or simply the classic “appeal to authority argument”.

The South African billionaire, his impossible to take serious “agency” and their combined antics have not attracted the same feedback.

Am I wrong? Or has the Constitution crowd gotten soft lately?