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Simpleχity;1065901231 said:How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right?
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Norbert Hofer, center, of the Austrian Freedom Party, narrowly lost the presidential election
From the American Right perspective, not at all.Simpleχity;1065901231 said:How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right?
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Norbert Hofer, center, of the Austrian Freedom Party, narrowly lost the presidential election
They only appear leftwing to the American right, desperately trying to place themselves as centrist.
Simpleχity;1065901231 said:How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right?
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Norbert Hofer, center, of the Austrian Freedom Party, narrowly lost the presidential election
They only appear leftwing to the American right, desperately trying to place themselves as centrist.
Here, Sanders is a far left, fringe candidate. While in much of Europe, his democratic socialism is fairly mainstream.
"To the Right"? Well, depends on your definition of "the Right". From where I sit, Europe and America are both swinging toward xenophobic, big-government, anti-liberal (in the European sense) populism - from the National Front in France to Law and Justice in Poland, to Mr.Trump. None of which has anything in common with the Right as exemplified by American conservatives and libertarians, or British and Canadian Tories, or German Christian Democrats, etc.
Yes.
But in most European countries, what's called "the right" traditionally never was libertarian. Traditionalist conservatives are only libertarian when "libertarian values" and "tradition" are the same thing, as in America.
Yes, there's this distinction too. In Denmark, for example, the liberal-libertarian party is called "Venstre" ("left")
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