Marilinda Garcia for Congress

Fusionism is making it's first official endorsement of 2014: Marilinda Garcia for Congress in NH's Second Congressional District. Marilinda is bright, personable, well-spoken and committed to smaller, responsible government, a realistic and less interventionist foreign policy based on clear US interests, and a responsible, measured backing away from some of the more insidious aspects of the ACA. Her votes against the proposed casinos in NH seem to have less to do with Nanny-State regulatory instincts than with thwarting Concord Democrats' search for an all purpose ATM to grow government in the libertarian-minded Granite State. Although our impression is that she considers herself more of a conservative than a libertarian, it is also our judgment that she is the type of conservative that can and would do a lot to strengthen the conservative-libertarian alliance. An advocate of school choice (she was herself home-schooled), she seems like the type of politician that wants to see more hot-button cultural questions returned to the civil society where they belong, rather than having government "lead" the way on them, which is the basis of the fusionism conservative-libertarian detante (see here: And while Fusionism does not endorse identity politics of any kind, it cannot be denied that as a young, pro-life, Hispanic woman, Garcia's presence in Congress would go a long way to shatter many stereotypes about those on the right. Good luck Marilinda. We can't get Ann Kuster--the self-dubbed biggest Obama supporter in Congress--out of Washington fast enough.