By the waning years of the Bush administration, the old "fusionist" alliance between libertarians and social conservatives seemed to be on its last legs. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mount Vernon Statement is less interesting for its content -- an attempt to reunite the libertarian, religious and foreign policy hawk wings of moribund "fusionist" or "movement" conservatism -- than for its dignified style and invocation of philosophical first principles. ❋ Michael Lind (2010)
One of the principle aims of the early conservative movement was to put forward a kind of ideological fusion that would link libertarian economic principles to white supremacist cultural principles to hawkish foreign policy principles and the Sharon Statement is just such a "fusionist" document. ❋ Myglesias (2010)
The National Review constructed a "fusionist" effort to bring the parties together. ❋ David Harsanyi (2010)
Conservatives were then mainly concerned with fighting Communist aggression -- the central uniting principle of Frank Meyer's "fusionist" coalition -- and feminism seems to have struck them as a rather silly domestic distraction from the big game of stopping the Reds. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"fusionist" poem that combines shamanistic and Islamic doctrines: ❋ Paksoy (2009)
One of the principle aims of the early conservative movement was to put forward a kind of ideological fusion that would link libertarian economic principles to white supremacist cultural principles to hawkish foreign policy principles and the Sharon Statement is just such a “fusionist” document. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As a Frank Meyer fusionist I have one foot in the libertarian boat and the other in the conservative. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But, and I have tried to make this point in another post, the GOP must be willing to continue a fusionist strategy in order to be able to win across the country. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Phoebe Maltz has an article in a recent issue of the fusionist magazine Doublethink (unfortunately the article is not available online) titled “The End of Anti-Semitism.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
But since abandoning capitalism in that broadest sense is, mercifully, no longer on the table, this seems like the sort of thing to be taken as a background fact that need not be covered by the fusionist overlapping consensus. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Then the fusionist has a problem on his hands if his main case for fusionism is that the market fosters virtue. ❋ Unknown (2007)
My point is that [the fusionist argument] is superficial insofar as it fails to address the question of whether market trends might in some cases positively undermine virtue. ❋ Unknown (2007)
So, suppose a fusionist thinks we ought to confine sex to marriage, but suppose also that deregulation of the airwaves, easily accessible pornography, etc. entail as a matter of empirical fact a society in which relatively few people will choose to confine sex to marriage. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I'm a Frank Meyer-style fusionist and centrist myself. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Charles B. Aycock was also a ferocious white supremacist and a leader within North Carolina's Democratic Party at a time when the party was wresting political control of parts of North Carolina from fusionist/integrationist forces -- by violence and coup d'état. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Person: [Sam]? Is [that a boy], a girl or a [fusionist]? ❋ WussupDawg (2009)
