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Originally Posted by breathesgelatin
You don't know much about right wing politics in Europe!
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The major parties (that get over 20% of the vote) are not right wing. However, parties like the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands in Germany, Le Pen's party in France (can't think of the name off the top of my head), Freedom Party in Austria, are extremelyy right wing, but more in the "nationalist racist" way, then in the free-market "classically liberal" way. Even then the NPD usually doesn't get more than 5% of the vote. Le Pen who went in the runoff for the Presidency only got like 15%.
I worked with the Freie Demokratische Partei in Germany for several months which is the only major classically liberal party in Germany and it generally garners less than 15% of the vote (in certain areas, far less than that). Furthermore, in terms of "classical liberalism" the FDP is something more akin to Republicans than actual Free Marketers.
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