The modern tendency to conceive of "fusionism" in coalitional terms reduces its philosophical claims to party politics. But a coalition is a construct fit for a particular time and place, while philosophies have pretensions to perennial importance and even eternal truth.
Fusion Is Philosophy, not Party Politics
By Stephanie Slade For the last seven years, and perhaps even longer than that, figures within the conservative chattering classes have been filing reports on the supposed death of fusionism. If those sweeping declarations didn’t strike you as questionable at the time, last summer’s release of a statement of principles for “freedom conservatives,” which boasts more than 250 signatories who have decidedly not given up on fusionist ideas, should prompt at least some pause. But if reports of its d
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