The 3 Branches of "the Right Wing"

Iron Age Unfolding ^ | Nov 11, 2025 | Henry Brown

[Openurmind]

The Political Landscape has Become Confusing. I’ve been noticing a divergence among “the right” since the ‘oughts. I never bothered to build a taxonomy for it, but somebody else has. Such might be useful—at least as a rudimentary model to be refined.

Since I began working on my upcoming graphic novel, I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts while adjusting line art, coloring and shading. Within the last week or so, I’ve discovered Nick Freitas. His podcasts have been enjoyable partly because his co-hosts have offered takes just as interesting as his, if not more so. When I heard them break “the right” down into three categories, I realized their analysis might have educational value for those who want to make sense of our convoluted state of politics right now.

So what is “the right wing” and why do I keep putting it in quotation marks?

Before the left-right political spectrum got inverted by leftist teachers, professors, politicians, pundits, etc., it was a useful scale to determine how much a party valued liberty or control. If you thought absolute state control over everything and everyone was the way to run a country (or the world), you were on the extreme left wing. Anarchists, who want no limitations whatsoever on anybody or anything, were on the extreme right wing. More moderate outlooks placed you somewhere between those extremes.

The original spectrum was problematic for leftists, because by 1945 the international consensus on their former Time Magazine “Man of the Year,” Adolf Hitler, was that he was the ultimate WOAT (Worst of All-Time).

Socialists never admit what they are or what they intend to do when their rise to power is unsure. They also receive help from propagandists disguising their worldview and intentions. It’s only natural they would seek to obscure their ideological connection to the National Socialists of Germany, Fascists of Italy, and “Imperialists” of Japan. Hence Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo were transformed into “right-wing” figures by the aforementioned professional deceivers, because Hitler, especially, became Mephistopheles in the mandatory postwar mythology.

So, first, here’s how Freitas breaks it down:

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[dfwgator]

Take it from the horse himself:

“According to the idea of the NSDAP [Nazi party], we are the German left. Nothing is more hateful to us than the right-wing national ownership block.”

-Josef Goebbels

[CodeToad]

How can fascism which is group think be right wing which is for individual rights??

[Pelham]

Cherry picking a Goebbels quote isn’t going to win you a prize.

Gregor and Otto Strasser were two very early members of the Nazi Party. They thought that Nazism should genuinely be socialist and anti-capitalist. In the Party this became known as Strasserism and comprised the left wing of the Party.

The much younger Goebbels bounced between siding with them and siding with Hitler. Hitler didn’t have any use for the Strassers and he rejected their ideas totally.

Fortunately for Goebbels, he abandoned Strasserism and hitched his horse to Hitler. He lived longer that way.

Hitler defeated the Strassers for control of the Nazi Party by 1926. Otto quit and formed the Black Front opposition. Gregor stayed and was murdered in the 1934 Night of the Long Knives, when Hitler eliminated all potential rivals.

Any history of Hitler’s rise to power includes his policy of courting and seeking the support of the German industrialists. And they gave him their support. No German socialist party of that era, and there were several, regarded the Nazis as belonging to their side of politics.

William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has most of this history in its opening chapters. It’s not a secret, not hard to find.

[wardaddy]

Because the definition has changed past 20 years

Anything state control is now considered left wing by many on the right

It’s self serving to me but whatever

[dfwgator]

Hitler was more pragmatic, because he needed those industrialists to build the war machine.

But once they were no longer needed, they would have gone the way for the Jews, and the government who seize the means of production, just as the Strassers wanted.

[wardaddy]

You and Miltie sane talking points

Anyone studied this stuff fifty years ago like old geezer here pretty much were instructed authoritarian one end
Totalitarian the other

Center obviously middle

Neocons decided hey let’s put everything bad one end and our stuff

The good stuff at the other end

Whatever u want to think it’s fine honestly

It’s Tucker versus Ben

It’s a distraction

I care about burying a foe who’s declared war on us and saving Christian western civ unashamedly

It’s simple for me

Like most of us my kids and grandkids will be the fighters

[wardaddy]

Whatever

That’s nice dynamic you guys use

I don’t care as much as yall do

I will tell you this

It won’t help you with our enemy

[dfwgator]

They call anything they disagree with “Fascist”. It doesn’t matter what you tell them.

[wardaddy]

That’s for certain
Or Hitler

Let’s don’t leave him out