This is what I think as well and thanks for expressing this! For much of the non-US West politics tend to have the centre at the left of the US, then it seems a giant gap is in place where US conservatism stands. But then things are starting to get active again once you cross that gap and get to the far right camp (paleoconservatives).
When I heard Kiwis say how right-wing US politics is, I always remind them the US's poster boy of far-right paleoconservatism, Pat Buchanan, got only 0.5% of presidential votes in 2000 election. Meanwhile, we had a similar figure in Winston Peters and at his peak he got 18% of votes in 1996 Parliament election and became the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand between 1996 and 1998. A supposedly more progresive country could stomach a paleocon as its deputy political leader, what an irony.
I remember giving Winston's policy platform to a liberal Democrat, and he was so shocked he could only mutter "I don't know about others, but it strikes me as a fascist party. Don't vote for them!". A lot of American liberals thinking they had moved to "greener pastures" by moving to a non-US country will be disappointed to see many of these countries have real nasty right-wing base parties which are moot in the States. They will also be shocked when finding out non-US Western societies tend to have a far more right-wing stance on race - 99.5% of American freepers here would be considered centrist or even centre-left if you only look at race and immigration and assimilation views espoused here.
I've considered that much of the worldwide animus against the American right is because, overseas, the "right" is so often associated with racist policies.
In America, though, nothing could be further from the truth. Still, we have the left in America making the same kind of charges. Perhaps, because their own worldview is so, ah, "European"...