What is 'Fusionism' and Can It Save the Right Before the Left Conquers Us?
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The American Right is not one movement. Libertarians, populists, national conservatives, postliberals, traditionalists, Reagan conservatives, and heterodox liberals often vote together while disagreeing about almost everything beneath the surface. The old fusionism held the GOP together for decades, but can a new one be built for the next 30 years?
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00:00 – Can these people actually work together?
03:44 – You can't build a coalition out of what you're against
13:00 – You said something brilliant, and nobody will ever reach it
19:40 – Frank Meyer was a communist before he built fusionism
24:15 – The book review that split the right in 1957
32:04 – The sentence where Meyer finally gets it
36:38 – Hassan Piker isn't a countryman, he's an enemy
39:03 – The five principles of the Sharon Statement
44:28 – Why the old fusionism doesn't hold anymore
49:04 – The economic fight the right hasn't had yet
53:23 – What a new fusionism would have to look like
1:02:41 – Start with policy, not philosophy
1:08:28 – It's already being used against us, so should we aim it back?
1:18:10 – The real test: could you live in their country?
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