I think part of what makes people so intractable on this question is a conflation of the terms "conservative" and "right-wing" that simply isn't always the case. "Conservative", as
this otherwise unrelated FC thread discusses, just has to do with supporting some (real or putative) element of the current or accepted or traditional way of doing things against efforts to change it. I identify as a "conservative" with respect to things like the tradition of local participatory democracy in the small-town Northeast, but also with respect to basic social solidarity principles that used to be taken for granted before the me-generation revolution of the late 70s and 80s. "Right-wing", on the other hand, is a term with much more aggressive ideological content having to do with a support for reifying and expanding certain types of social and economic hierarchies. Looking at it this way, fascism is clearly right-wing despite not being particularly conservative (although even this taxonomy runs into edge-case regimes that had both fascist and ultraconservative tendencies within them, such as Franco's Spain or ultranationalist Japan).
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