[7] The Falange of Spain, while allied with the nationalist right side during the Spanish Civil War and being widely considered to be far right,[8] presented itself definitively as syncretic.
[11][12] In the United States, Third Way adherents embrace fiscal conservatism to a greater extent than traditional social liberals and advocate some replacement of welfare with workfare, and sometimes have a stronger preference for market solutions to traditional problems (as in pollution markets), while rejecting pure laissez-faire economics and other right-libertarian positions.
[14][15][16] Such Presidents undermine the opposition by borrowing policies from it in an effort to seize the middle and with it to achieve political dominance.
This technique is known as triangulation and was used by Bill Clinton and other New Democrats who sought to move beyond the party's New Deal liberalism reputation in response to the political realignment of the 1980s.
Through this strategy, Clinton adopted themes associated with the Republican Party, such as fiscal conservatism, welfare reform, deregulation and law and order policies.