National Review (Buckley fusionism)

Buckley's fusionist framework — traditionalist conservatism on social issues, free markets on economic issues, and Cold War anti-communism on foreign policy — aligns Abbott on the church-state and LGBTQ-restriction package (traditionalist), on tax cuts and deregulation (free-market), and on SB 17 foreign-land-ownership restrictions targeting China/Russia/Iran/NK (anti-adversary). The complication is that the post-Buckley National Review under editors like Ramesh Ponnuru and Jay Nordlinger has been openly critical of Trump-aligned populism, and Abbott's Yass-funded primary discipline and his quorum-arrest order sit uncomfortably with that institutional-Republican strain. Hinojosa runs against fusionism on essentially every prong. Abbott is the substantially closer Buckley fusionism fit; Hinojosa is the opposing-tradition test case.