Question: what do people mean when they use the term “far right”.? What do people see as its defining characteristics which separate it from the right, the hard right, populist right or just right wingers with opinions I hate?
For me, one area of overlap confusing the issue is the use of paranoid rhetoric and conspiracy theories stirring people up agaisnt institutions which preserve democracy.
@robertshrimsley Montauk. If you look at a map, it's further to the right than Flushing Meadows or even Sag Harbor.
@robertshrimsley I think of the Far Right as being the BNP. The hard right and populist right are people like Truss, Rees-Mogg and Farage. The Right are Tories including the likes of David Cameron and those who got kicked out in the Brexit purge.
@robertshrimsley the part of the right that denies any legitimacy of the left / progressives / the “woke”, no matter how much people like some ideas or how any votes these positions get. They talk in terms of catastrophe befalling us if they don’t rescue country/civilization.
@robertshrimsley @robfordmancs has a useful distinction Far right means to the right of conservatism and a threat to democracy Radical right means to the right of conservatism but you accept democracy. By this definition Trump is far right
@robertshrimsley Best ask those using the term. I bet it is temporary designation and will fade as soon as it looses novelty.