Post-Fusionist Family Policy

Philip Pilkington argues “fusionist” economic policies kept us on a self-destructive course. The new normal now requires expansive government action centered around family policy.

Family policy is much bigger than family policy. Family policy is, in fact, the fulcrum on which the entire global conservative movement will soon turn. This movement will have to redefine itself, root and branch, to accommodate family policy – and if it fails our societies will be engulfed in a demographic winter that will cause economic and social collapse. More on that, in a moment.

I want to start by talking about something a bit broader. Namely, the American conservative movement. That may sound a little obscure, but the reality is that most of the conservative movements in the Western world have taken their cue from the American conservative movement – although what the Hungarians have been doing for the past 15 years. My thesis is that family policy – and the problem of demographic decline that it addresses – poses a fundamental problem for the American conservative worldview typically referred to as “fusionism.”