re: #63 FriendsofHummus

To expand on Hitler was a leftist nonsense. A leftist wouldn’t have aligned with Franco in the Spanish Civil War. You know, Francisco Franco, one of Pat Buchanan’s favorite people. I will grant that European right/left differs from American right/left since our right wing has never had affinity for monarchies the way the European right did and does but to suggest that the Nazis were on the left is fundamentally dishonest and ignores the fact that after Jews and Roma, left wingers were among those that the Nazis targeted the most.

This difference may be less than it appears to be. If RW ideology is viewed as basically the idea of an aristocracy that deserves to rule over lesser beings, then both monarchists and people who pine for corporate overlords fit the bill.