Red Toryism in America

[VPH]

Why did the United States not share in the Red Tory tradition that proliferated both in the UK and Canada? I read somewhere that it had to do with the expulsion of the United Empire Loyalists, but I hesitate to assume that that was enough to keep out a political tradition so prevalent in the Anglosphere.

Then again, perhaps somebody like Henry Clay approximates the ideology. Or more modern progressive Republicans in the mold of Harold Stassen, Earl Warren, and George Norris be considered Red Tories? These factions all represented a moderate conservativism which recognized the importance of moderate government intervention in the market.

[VPH]

Thanks!! That's about the best explanation I could ask for.

I could definitely see how the Republican Party's adoption of liberal economics abandoned a red toryism that was espoused by Hamilton, Clay, et al. And I imagine fusionism destroyed any vestige left of this old tradition, already rarer in the US due to the things you note. The stability idea is particularly interesting. Ealier in our history things like the Shay's Rebellion, the Whiskey Rebellion, and the Civil War might have made that different back then.