“Conservatism” in Europe is definitely not the same thing as “conservatism” in the US. Pretty much every party in Europe regards statism in some form or another as a given, the basis upon which everything else is built. By American standards, they’re all varieties of leftism. American conservatism is predicated on limited government, federalism, and the ascendancy of individual rights. There really isn’t any noticeable equivalent to our conservatism in Europe anywhere. That’s why saying “on the right” means something very different here than it does there.
Exactly.