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Hard to tell if you are asking in good faith, but the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page has a perfectly serviceable definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by foldr 3y ago
Hard to tell if you are asking in good faith, but the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page has a perfectly serviceable definition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics
>Far-right politics, or right-wing extremism, refers to a spectrum of political thought that tends to be radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian, often also including nativist tendencies. The name derives from the left–right political spectrum, with the "far right" considered further from center than the standard political right.
- WeylandYutani 3y agoFascinating. By this measure de Santis and practically all Republican mainstream candidates would be considered far right.
- foldr 3y agoOnly if you agree that de Santis is, e.g., an ultra-nationalist. And if you do agree that all or most of those points apply to de Santis, then it's hard to see why you'd not agree that he's far right. I mean, who would be far right in that case? Only ultra-ultra-nationalists who are more-than-just-radically conservative? To be clear, I'm not expressing an opinion here as to whether de Santis is far right. I'm saying that anyone who disagrees that he is will probably also disagree that at least one component of Wikipedia's definition applies to him.
- rhinoceraptor 3y agoThere are certainly many issues where a conservative of fifty years ago would be considered much further left than modern day conservatives, if not actually further to the left than modern day liberals. Contrast this clip of the George H.W. Bush of 1980 [1], to the rhetoric DeSantis uses in regards to immigration[2]: 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsmgPp_nlok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsmgPp_nlok 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Y-CtN8Qi0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Y-CtN8Qi0
- valval 3y ago[flagged]
- foldr 3y agoWhen someone says “far right” they usually mean roughly what the Wikipedia article describes. I don’t see any reason to suppose that the phrase is being used in a novel or unusual sense in the article, so I wonder if the question is being asked rhetorically. But if the poster really just wants to know what “far right” means, then the Wikipedia article explains it.
- anononaut 3y ago[flagged]
- foldr 3y agoThe original question was what “far right” refers to in the article. My assumption is that the Signal employees mentioned had roughly the same thing in mind as the Wikipedia article. You may not like the term “far right” (after all, both “far left” and “far right” are usually used pejoratively), but there is little doubt as to what it means in this context.