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fusionist

9.1

A person who wants free markets and traditional social values

noun
/ˈfjuːʒənɪst/

Jargon

: fusionista

As a dedicated fusionist, she believes that conservative values can coexist with free-market policies.

Examples

Beyond this, I am a standard American 'fusionist' conservative: Christian public morality + capitalist economy + limited, non-socialist/welfarist government + celebration of Occidental high culture + strong national defense + traditional (retributive + restitutive) crime control methods.

Blog text (23)
To the extent that this theory is closely related to fusion, it is also related to a problem that Huntington pointed to in his critique of fusionists.

Academic text (1996)
The fusionist movement has emerged as a way to unite different factions within the party.
Many fusionists advocate for the blending of economic liberties with social conservatism to create a balanced ideology.

Synonyms

syncretist

vsfusionist

9.8

A person who mixes different beliefs or practices

focuses on mixing political beliefs linking economic ideas with conservative values

hybridist

vsfusionist

8.3

A person who supports mixing different methods and technologies

applies to mixing political beliefs and economic values rather than technical systems

Antonyms

sectarian

1 8.2

A person who strongly follows a religious or political group

How Integrative

fusionist

Jargon

9.1

coalition

525 4.3

Surface Forms

fusionist singular

fusionists plural

Morphology

fusionist = fusion (transparent) = fusion + ist

Agentive formation from 'fusion' referring to the political blending of ideas; the formation is regular and form-meaning mapping is clear.

Etymology

Fusionist comes from fusion ('joining' or 'bringing together') plus the ending -ist ('a person who does something'), so a fusionist in politics is someone who brings together different ideas, like free-market policies and traditional values.