Rod Dreher, the American traditionalist journo, has just published an important blog post that Aussie conservatives would do well to read. It’s (broadly) about the terminal decline of fusionism, the blend of traditionalism and classical liberalism that led to the orthodoxy of ‘Movement Conservatism’, or Reaganism. Read the whole thing, as Rod would say, but this bit in particular:

This is the thing that drives me nuts about libertarians.