Fusionism worked in its time not because it solved the philosophical tensions between liberty and order but because it created a durable political framework where these competing priorities could both find expression. The difficulty today is that the institutional and cultural environment has shifted so dramatically that those same containment fields no longer hold. That does not mean the underlying need for synthesis has gone away. In fact the more fragmented the right becomes the more valuable a unifying principle is.
Fusionism worked in its time not because it solved the philosophical tensions between liberty and order but because it created a durable political framework where these competing priorities could both find expression. The difficulty today is that the institutional and cultural environment has shifted so dramatically that those same containment fields no longer hold. That does not mean the underlying need for synthesis has gone away. In fact the more fragmented the right becomes the more valuable a unifying principle is.