MaizieD
^Maybe one of the posters here using the term 'far right' can explain why they use that term and what it means please.^
The ever useful AI might help you.
Characteristics of 'far right'.
1. Extreme nationalism
The nation is treated as the primary political community, often with an emphasis on ethnic, cultural or ancestral identity. National interests are presented as overriding international obligations or universal principles.*
2. Strong hostility to immigration
Immigration is often portrayed not merely as an economic or administrative issue but as a threat to national identity, culture, social cohesion or security. This can shade into the belief that different ethnic or religious groups cannot properly coexist.*
*3. Nativism
A particularly important distinction is between ordinary nationalism and nativism: the belief that the country fundamentally belongs to its indigenous or historically established population and that outsiders are inherently less entitled to belong.*
4. “Us versus them” politics
Far-right movements commonly divide society between a supposedly virtuous “ordinary people” and various groups portrayed as enemies or corrupting influences: immigrants, minorities, political elites, intellectuals, journalists, judges, civil servants, NGOs, or “globalists”.
5. Authoritarianism
There is often a preference for strong leadership, stricter social discipline, harsher criminal penalties and greater state coercion. Institutions which constrain executive power can be portrayed as obstacles to the will of the people.
6. Hostility to pluralism
Liberal democracy assumes that different groups and opinions can legitimately coexist. Far-right politics tends to be less comfortable with this pluralism, particularly where minority rights or competing identities are concerned.
7. Rejection of liberal universalism
Ideas such as equal rights regardless of ethnicity, nationality, religion or sexual orientation may be regarded as excessive or subordinate to national, cultural or traditional values.
8. Traditionalism and reaction
Far-right movements frequently idealise an earlier, supposedly more cohesive society and seek to reverse social changes involving gender roles, sexuality, multiculturalism or immigration. This is not identical to conservatism: the characteristic feature is often a desire to restore a lost social order.
9. Conspiracy thinking
Conspiracy narratives are common, particularly those involving supposedly coordinated efforts by elites or outside groups to undermine the nation. Examples include claims about “globalists”, demographic replacement, cultural Marxism, or deliberate destruction of national identity.
10. Disdain for established institutions
This can be paradoxical. Far-right movements may attack mainstream parties, Parliament, courts, universities, the civil service and the media as an illegitimate “establishment”, while simultaneously demanding much stronger executive authority.
Not my opinion. The meta analysis of a large body of writing and research into political characteristics of groups/movements in societies world wide.
Very good summation of what the far right is all about.
