The Right needs a more ‘muscular’ conservatism

At last month’s National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida, I used my speech to criticize “Fusionism,” the postwar conservative movement’s default political alliance built upon a “Fusionist” political philosophy, and instead argued on behalf of an alternative path forward. Fusionism, as formulated and popularized by the mid-century theorist Frank Meyer, “fused” together economic…