If he did, he might explain that the Republican party was formed around an always-uneasy alliance between Whig prosperity-mongers and Free Soil puritans.
Libertarianism, which values liberty above all other values, has always had an uneasy relationship with conservatism, being either a distinct strain of it or a different ideology altogether.
Meanwhile, the OFES is preoccupied with magnetic fusion research since inertial fusion has always had an uneasy collusion and intertwined nature of being weapons related and living in dark corners of classification and secrecy.