Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In politics, one who advocates or supports some more or less temporary coalition of two or more parties or factions against another.
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- noun An adherent of
fusionism or aparticipant in apolitical fusion .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The National Review constructed a "fusionist" effort to bring the parties together.
Reason Magazine David Harsanyi 2010
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Mount Vernon Statement is less interesting for its content -- an attempt to reunite the libertarian, religious and foreign policy hawk wings of moribund "fusionist" or "movement" conservatism -- than for its dignified style and invocation of philosophical first principles.
Politics Michael Lind 2010
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By the waning years of the Bush administration, the old "fusionist" alliance between libertarians and social conservatives seemed to be on its last legs.
Reason Magazine 2010
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One of the principle aims of the early conservative movement was to put forward a kind of ideological fusion that would link libertarian economic principles to white supremacist cultural principles to hawkish foreign policy principles and the Sharon Statement is just such a "fusionist" document.
Center for American Progress Action Fund myglesias 2010
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Conservatives were then mainly concerned with fighting Communist aggression -- the central uniting principle of Frank Meyer's "fusionist" coalition -- and feminism seems to have struck them as a rather silly domestic distraction from the big game of stopping the Reds.
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"fusionist" poem that combines shamanistic and Islamic doctrines:
neweurasia.net Paksoy 2009
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One of the principle aims of the early conservative movement was to put forward a kind of ideological fusion that would link libertarian economic principles to white supremacist cultural principles to hawkish foreign policy principles and the Sharon Statement is just such a “fusionist” document.
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As a Frank Meyer fusionist I have one foot in the libertarian boat and the other in the conservative.
From Far Left to Libertarian, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But, and I have tried to make this point in another post, the GOP must be willing to continue a fusionist strategy in order to be able to win across the country.
The woman with the twenty-dollar bill. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Phoebe Maltz has an article in a recent issue of the fusionist magazine Doublethink (unfortunately the article is not available online) titled “The End of Anti-Semitism.”
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