I disagree with you, you can’t “have economic and fiscal conservatism without social conservatism” in America.
Not only will it be less functional, as you mention, but economic conservatism will disappear entirely, as social liberalism in law and culture breeds an ever more liberal and selfish voting base for the left.
You don’t agree with the author totally, but you do seem to be sharing some of his position.
Well there’s a difference in how you are interpreting my statement and how I meant it.
In the utlimate ultimate ultimate sense, less functional and ultimate demise are much the same. I was talking in the temporal….becuse you might have heard, we have elections every two years and laws are passed every day, so temporal is the debate here.
I’ve no argument with your deeper philosophcal ultimate point at all, but there can be, in the short run, unbalanced conservatism…...