Conservative Libertarian
Ignazio Cassis, a leader of Switzerland's Free Democratic Party (FDP), embodies Conservative Libertarianism by promoting deregulation, economic liberalization, and decentralized governance. His policies prioritize entrepreneurship, reduced government bureaucracy, and personal freedoms while maintaining social stability and respect for tradition. He upholds direct democracy and the rule of law, ensuring limited government interference in both economic and personal affairs.
What it believes
Liberty flourishes best among people formed by tradition: minimal government, maximal freedom — but exercised by communities with churches, customs, and character, which do the ordering law no longer must.
The appeal
It answers libertarianism's hardest question — what holds a free society together? — with an old answer: virtue, locally produced. Small towns that govern themselves lightly and well are its standing exhibit.
Where it breaks
When tradition and liberty conflict — the dissenting daughter, the unorthodox neighbor — the cell must choose, and its history of choosing tradition converts 'ordered liberty' into local majoritarianism with a liberty accent.
Among its neighbours
The Fiscal Conservative above keeps the small budget without the theology of smallness. The Civil Libertarian beside it defends the dissenter this cell's communities discipline. Below, the Libertarian universalizes the liberty and drops the tradition. Marketward, the Libertarian Capitalist completes the economic program.
Figures — real and imagined — who share the Conservative Libertarian base ideology. They differ only on the third axis: from radical to restorationist, each is a different face of a Conservative Libertarian.
The company you keep.
The social axis (progressive ↔ traditional) splits Conservative Libertarian into nine named shades. Take the quiz to find out which one is yours.
- Radical Conservative Libertarian
- Progressive Conservative Libertarian
- Reformist Conservative Libertarian
- Heterodox Conservative Libertarian
- Conservative Libertarian
- Rooted Conservative Libertarian
- Traditional Conservative Libertarian
- Reactionary Conservative Libertarian
- Restorationist Conservative Libertarian