This is a popular thing to say but it really isn't true. Right wing parties in Europe are far more right-wing than the American right. The Democratic Party is

This is a popular thing to say but it really isn't true. Right wing parties in Europe are far more right-wing than the American right. The Democratic Party is comparable to any other social democratic party in Europe: the UK Labour Party, the German SDP, the Swedish SAP, etc. What America lacks that most European countries have is a true centrist Liberal party. This tends to be obfuscated in American politics due its unfortunate misuse of the word Liberal.