Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Frank Meyers is dead.
Let us just accept it. 50 years ago the Conservative writer Frank Meyers put forth the idea of Fusionism. Fusionism was a combination of Classical Liberalism (aka Libertarianism) and social Conservatism. The idea was that both sides wanted a smaller government. The Classical Liberals wanted individual freedom (less taxes and less regulation) and the Social Conservatives wanted the government to stop ordering them around (illegal school prayer and illegal nativity scenes.) Everyone agreed on less agreement.
This is over. Someone please clear up the cognitive dissonance that unites the congressional declaration on Terry Schiavo with the Flat Taxers.
The Republican Achilles’ heel is exposed. We will see if the Democrats can hit the obvious target.
