Why do conservatives very often value George Orwell?

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George Orwell was a tremendous thinker and a wonderful critic of Totalitarian regimes. Although he was a man of the left he never let his ideological inclination obscure his thinking. He could see the dangers of the excesses of his own side and resented it. This attribute, in the time of contemporary partisan politics, is unfortunately all too rare.

Orwell was the original contrarian. In many ways he was a true individualist. He also had a knack for calling out hypocrisy and the deeds of the self-righteous.

I have read a great deal of Orwell (books plus his collection of essays) and see his writing as having much that resonates with classical liberalism (which today falls under the category of conservatism in the US) - He championed free speech, supported Individual rights, believed in necessary societal structures that work, detested the mindset of rigid collectivism and loathed both the Fascist and Marxist-Leninist superstructures that sit in opposition to Conservatism.