The party has been described as fiscally statist within an ultranationalist authoritarian ideology. In Swedish this ideology is called statist individualism. Since conservatives were sometimes more statist than liberals, Rothbard tried to reach out to leftists. The result was a subtle but important shift in liberal [i.e. American statist] thinking. These authors emphasize that PDAs have different motives from existing statist defense agencies. Furthermore, the "Statist" and "Vonckist" factions were in constant conflict, bordering on civil war. However, there are several differences between the statist (Soviet) model and the party-state model (China). Kevin Nash's remarks on the Affordable Healthcare Act by calling him an "ass-kissing statist". Elpidio Cobian works as a film statist.