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What is a historical example of "far right wing?"
Well traditionally that would be Anarchy/Martial Law but the left has co-opted that stance in some morphed way to include an all encompassing Govt. presence.
It is hard to suggest that Nazis were "Far Right" in American politics because they were the govt. and our so called Far-Right is against Govt. completely. Using their argument in American politics, one would have to say the Nazis were a far left fascist group. Of course F16 knows this. Just saying in case some fence riding kid in the dorm reads this and plans to vote for Talarico
The enemy of this nation's debate on this makes no darn sense.
Here is what Grok has to say:
The term "far right" is used inconsistently. Media, academics, and activists often apply it to anything from actual neo-Nazis to ordinary conservatives who want lower immigration or traditional social norms. That blurring makes lists of "far-right bad things" easy to inflate. The clearest, least-contested examples involve explicit ethnonationalist, fascist, or neo-Nazi movements that used violence, dictatorship, or genocide.
Historical cases that fit the label
- Nazi Germany (19331945): Racial hierarchy, aggressive war, and the Holocaust. The regime murdered six million Jews plus millions of others (Roma, disabled people, political opponents, Slavs) in a systematic industrial program. This is the archetype most people mean by "far-right" totalitarianism.
- Fascist Italy under Mussolini: One-party state, suppression of opposition, imperial wars in Ethiopia and the Balkans, and alignment with Hitler. Less genocidal than Nazism but still authoritarian and expansionist.
- Other 20th-century nationalist-authoritarian regimes sometimes grouped with the far right: Franco's Spain (after the Civil War), various interwar movements in Eastern Europe, and later juntas that combined nationalism with anti-communism and repression.
Post-1945 and contemporary violence
Smaller groups and lone actors have continued the pattern:
- Neo-Nazi and white-nationalist organizations (Aryan Nations, National Alliance, later Atomwaffen Division, The Base, and similar networks) have produced murders, bomb plots, and propaganda calling for race war.
- High-profile attacks explicitly tied to those ideas include the 2011 Norway attacks (Anders Behring Breivik), the 2015 Charleston church shooting, the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, the 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting, and the 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooting. Perpetrators typically cited replacement theory, anti-immigration manifestos, or neo-Nazi texts.
- The Ku Klux Klan and its successors carried out lynchings, bombings, and intimidation for decades after Reconstruction; later incarnations were smaller but still violent.
What the label often does not accurately describe
Opposition to high immigration, criticism of DEI programs, support for border enforcement, or traditional views on family and sex are routinely called "far right" by opponents. Those positions have been mainstream in most countries for most of history and do not require endorsing dictatorship or racial hierarchy. Conflating them with Nazism or race-war terrorism is a rhetorical move, not a precise description.
Far-right violence exists and has produced real victims. It is also numerically smaller than the body count of 20th-century communist regimes, and in recent U.S. data it is not the dominant source of domestic terrorism in every year. Accuracy requires keeping the term attached to actual authoritarian-nationalist or racial-supremacist actors rather than using it as a catch-all for anyone to the right of the current media consensus.
