“I have always thought that there IS no “economic” and “social” conservatism. As if they were separable. They are not. She is right. Cannot have one without the other. Impossible.”
There is a debate to be had here.
I remember Nixon saying in the late sixties that he was a liberal socially but a conservative economically. Perhaps that was just a capture the middle ground statement and not his real belief.
Lots of people say that, which is why she retorted it.
There is no way to say you are all for being free-enterprise, and yet force people to associate one way or not. Which is what is done to business being forced to accept all customers, e.g. how can you state someone can associate with whom they wish personally, but must accept all associations in business?
This is just one of many conundrums trying to square one and the other.