| For neoconservatives, such a fusionism would provide the wiggle room in the budget to increase the size of the military to a size they believe is more appropriate. |
| This is true of those who point to Hayek as their inspiration or to Buckley or Strauss or even Meyer's later fusionism. |
| If a new kind of fusionism is to have any chance for success, it must aim beyond the specifics of particular, present-day controversies. |
| On national security, meanwhile, the Democratic Party is plainly much less libertarian — and the Republican Party, mostly thanks to Rand Paul, slightly more so — than it was when Lindsey was drawing up his form of fusionism. |
| Then the fusionist has a problem on his hands if his main case for fusionism is that the market fosters virtue. |
| Indeed, it could even be argued that the mainstream Right today turns fusionism on its head by paying little more than lip service to either libertarianism or traditionalism. |
