This is so true. I've also wondered why the Nazis and fascists of the 30s and 40s are considered right-wingers today. They would have considered themselves "progressive thinkers".
Here's a "right wing" European fascist -
“We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” - Adolph Hitler, speech of May 1, 1927
The Nazis are only considered 'right-wingers' by left-wingers. They conveniently forget that the term 'Nazi' actually stood for "the National Socialist Party"