I don’t know that the terms Left and Right are at all meaningful. I’m fairly certain Von Brunn doesn’t meet the basic requirements to be considered a conservative.

Communists, Socialists, Nazis, and Fascists all share the characteristic that they believe some government body can make better decisions than individuals can.

Since the primary desire of American conservatives is to have a small limited government that rarely interferes with individual liberty, it’s easy to see why a lot of us lump those tyrannical philosophies in the same category.