This is why "libertarian conservative" is an oxymoron. Libertarianism's a species of liberalism, bc it prioritizes the liberation of the individual. Modern liberals think that can be accomplished thro the welfare state. Libertarians think it's better achived thro free markets.
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Same for me. I still remember when Sam Francis (whose Middle American Revolution paved the way for Trumpism) called capitalism "the enemy." He hated that free markets treat everyone's dollar the same. That's why I love markets.
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In my case, Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver, Robert Nisbet & others we read in my senior seminar at Hillsdale. Fortunately for me, I encountered them simultaneously with Virginia Postrel and Karl Popper. Boy, that was quite a year.
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Correct. I think people who think for a living can conflate counting votes with the abstract coherence of various ideologies (or whatever intellectual status one considers conservatism!).
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Accident? The pre-New Deal conservatives emphasized limited govt, laissez-faire economics, individual liberty. The American Liberty League was anti-New Deal conservatives. Even the New Conservatives claimed the American revolution as a conservative action against royal overreach.
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Fusionism isn't between European-style conservatives and libertarians. American conservatives have historically been what Europeans call liberals, or in UK most similar to Whigs, explicitly anti-Tory. And when the American right has gone populist, like now, it loses those folks.
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