Beware of projecting American political realities onto European politics. There are lots of nuances and not everyone falls neatly into ‘conservative’ or ‘liberal’ (or pro-Trump and anti-Trump) camps the same way they do here.
And yes there are blatant fascist and anti-Semitic elements in significant segments of the ‘right wing’ in several countries. It isn’t just propaganda. The National Front’s founder in France for example, is an avowed Holocaust denier. And these unsavory elements have had just as much to do with Europe’s downfall into its current crisis as anything else. Preceding the migrants.
And don’t be a Putinista please. Russian politics is a whole other ballgame.
Yes, my understanding as well. The concepts are very foreign to anyone in North America, but there really ARE right wingers there - true fascists. Jean Francois Revel has a good book on it called “Anti-Americanism”. The Europe right tended to be just as anti-American as the left.
You do realize you contradict your argument by claiming Fascism is right wing? If you ask National Front people or British National Party they will tell you they're more inline with socialism which is true.
If you ask a "journalist" to label them they're "right wing"
Shouldn't all of us be labeled by what we call ourselves not what others degrade us to?