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2006 comment

I think this timely, as I have been seeing a lot of discussion lately in the political press. Given that fusionism gets mentioned in many articles on American conservatism in Wikipedia, I figure a separate article is necessary. I will be including references and citations as I try to improve the article, and welcome any. --Amcalabrese 03:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2008 comment

Is a reverse fusionism going on between social conservatives and fiscal liberals? Such as the Sam's Club Republicans, crunchy conservatives, Huckabee populists, etc. - MonkStar (talk) 21:16, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Liberal Conservatism

Reading the articles about libertarian conservatism and your fusionism, I have come to a conclusion: these are all different names for liberal conservatism. If there is no opposition, I would like to propose a merger with the aforementioned libertarian concepts as sections under liberal conservatism. 67.183.157.148 (talk) 10:28, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Belongs in Republican Party (US) page

Fusionism is generic enough a term as to be improper for use in this particular article. I think it should go to the ideology section of the article on the GOP/Republican Party.

A good article on this particular view of the GOP can be found on the Heritage Foundation site, here:

The Conservative Consensus: Frank Meyer, Barry Goldwater, and the Politics of Fusionism

This article is a problem of disambiguation to me. Fusion of political parties was a particularly fearful prospect for Republicans in the past, so applying the broad term to the party as a whole in the article title in Wikipedia is particularly ironic. Wjkahn (talk) 01:03, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ralph Reed is a fusionist? Really?

I thought he was strictly in the religious right wing of the party. I would have thought he was hard-line on that J390 (talk) 03:11, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reed was a fusionist. In 1995, he told incoming Republican members of Congress that "in an essentially conservative society, traditionalist ends can be advanced through libertarian means." --Amcalabrese (talk) 11:29, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with article, clarification

First of all, fusionism was a development within the conservative intellectual movement. Though many Republicans consider themselves conservative or fusionist, it is a category of thought outside partisan lines. The best source to study the conservative intellectual movement is The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George H. Nash.

Secondly, the error in the article is that there is a third element to the broader conservative intellectual movement, that of anti-Communism. While fusionism was indeed an effort to bridge traditionalist conservatives and libertarian conservatives those were not the only two categories within the movement.

Hvillenavy (talk) 19:54, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly it was a unification against a communist threat. If everyone just checked out the article I cited and posted below I think we can really shed lights on the roots and falling out of fusionism. PLASTIKGOD (talk)

I added a few cites from an article on Real Clear I ran across

Pajama's is kind of biased. This guy who wrote for real clear is not a tea party party proponent but a political observer of a libertarian nature. I wanted this cited because it is a major change in GOP philosophy the first of its kind since the 1950s maybe even the 1930s. Just read the article on real clear politics and I think anyone can agree this is happening to some extent. Said article can be found here: ^[1] . PLASTIKGOD (talk)

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^ [1]"The end of republican fusionism?". realclear politics. March 01, 2008. Retrieved febuary 05, 2011. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)

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[1] [1]"The end of republican fusionism?". realclear politics. March 01, 2008. Retrieved febuary 05, 2011. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)

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