LOL! I'm going to watch for an opportunity to use that phrase, myself!
Only an elitist would find defense of the free market "contradictory" to the observation that business and government work together to defeat the free market, or to advocacy of traditional families and private institutions.
Dreher's basic premise - always has been, as far as I can tell - is that, because life isn't perfect, elites such as himself should have the power of government coercion to *make* all those ordinary, smelly people *be* as perfect as he believes himself to be.
I'm impressed you figured out what he was even going for...but yeah, that has to be it...the logic is Pretzel at best...