{"id":2267709,"date":"2024-06-14T08:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T12:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-right-yeah-right\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T08:15:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T12:15:57","slug":"far-right-yeah-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-right-yeah-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Far right? More like, yeah right!"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffar-right-yeah-right%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2267709&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses recent European \u200bUnion elections \u2062where right-wing parties have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-democrats-push-back-on-false-claims-from-media-about-desantis-response-to-building-collapse\/\" title=\"Florida Democrats Push Back On False Claims From Media About DeSantis Response To Building Collapse\">gained significant traction<\/a>, a development that has led to heightened media rhetoric\u200d labeling these groups as &#8220;far right.&#8221; It critiques the mainstream media&#8217;s\u2062 use of terms \u200dlike &#8220;far right,&#8221; &#8220;hard right,&#8221; and\u200d &#8220;extreme right,&#8221; suggesting these are overly simplistic\u200d and derogatory labels used by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stanford-medical-professor-on-desantis-covid-success-because-hes-very-well-informed-better-than-most-epidemiologists\/\" title=\"Stanford Medical Professor On DeSantis: COVID Success Because He\u2019s \u2018Very Well Informed,\u2019 Better Than \u2018Most Epidemiologists\u2019\">left-leaning media<\/a> and politicians to dismiss and stigmatize these movements.<\/p>\n<p>The article points out the biased portrayal by the media, which often presents right-wing parties\u2064 as dangerous\u2062 or illegitimate, akin to historical fascists, without acknowledging the legitimate political concerns they represent. For instance, concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-would-be-an-irreparable-disaster-if-joe-biden-were-designated-president-of-the-united-states-archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano-warns-believers-in-latest-interview\/\" title=\"\u201cIt Would Be an Irreparable Disaster if Joe Biden \u2013 Were Designated President of the United States\u201d \u2013 Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano Warns Believers in Latest Interview with Steve Bannon\">national sovereignty<\/a> and resistance to\u200c progressive policies are\u2063 highlighted \u2064as core issues for these\u2063 parties, \u2062rather than extremist ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the article mentions how the media often \u200cgeneralizes the \u200cmotives of people supporting \u200dright-wing parties, using the Brexit\u200d vote as an \u200dexample \u2064where\u2064 the media depicted supporters largely \u2062as racists, ignoring broader\u200c issues like governance and national sovereignty that were important to many voters.<\/p>\n<p>the article argues that the treatment of right-wing parties \u200bin the media is unfairly negative and \u2062dismissive, failing \u2064to engage with the substantive aspects of their political platforms and reducing complex political phenomena to simple pejorative labels.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3033830\/right-wing-parties-make-major-gains-in-european-union-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>European elections<\/a> this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/3041234\/a-new-european-right-what-the-media-missed-in-europes-recent-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>turbocharged media misuse<\/a> of the term \u201cfar right.\u201d Parties opposed to pan-European socialism <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/3040669\/european-far-right-issues-a-stinging-rebuke-to-elites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>made big gains<\/a>, triggering alarmed reports about a \u201cfar right\u201d threat. <\/p>\n<p>These came from news outlets always ready to deprecate movements that appeal to voters who wish to protect their national cultures against attack by unlimited \u201cprogressivism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google-search \u201cEuropean elections and far right,\u201d and up pop headlines such as \u201c\u2026far right rocks European politics\u2026\u201d (<em>Associated Press<\/em>), \u201cBattered by far right, Macron bets big\u2026\u201d (<em>Washington Post<\/em>), and \u201c\u2026give far right an acceptable face\u201d (CNN). The \u201cfar right\u201d rocks and batters things and needs a mask to seem acceptable. At least, that\u2019s how news media tell it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFar right\u201d and variants such as \u201chard right\u201d and \u201cextreme right\u201d are merely insults thrown promiscuously by leftish politicians and media, conveying no more than that their target is disliked by the speaker or writer.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Leader of the French National Rally Marine Le Pen, left and lead candidate of the party for the upcoming European election, Jordan Bardella, during a political meeting Sunday, June 2, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo\/Thomas Padilla)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Journalists in Europe and America seem incapable of viewing politics other than through the antique lens of Allies versus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nazis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Nazis<\/a>, and they outlandishly imply similarities between our epoch and the decade before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/world-war-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>World War II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re helped in framing stories this way by trace elements of ugly old fascism that cling to populist conservative parties in Europe. But these fringes neither control nor motivate right-wing agendas, which are well within the pale of polite political discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Leftish journalists simply want to tar conservative causes with the radicalism of their fringes. Just as when U.K. citizens voted in 2016 to quit the European Union, a small minority was driven by racial xenophobia. So, the media depicted \u201cleavers\u201d generally as racist when, in truth, most wanted merely to restore national sovereignty, govern themselves, and stop being lorded over by foreign oligarchs.<\/p>\n<p>In France today, the National Rally party of Marine Le Pen no longer advocates policies or has leadership that can legitimately be called racist. It wants to preserve French identity by stanching the flow of immigration, primarily from Muslim countries, that has radically altered the culture for the worse. It rejects multiculturalism and the soothing lie that \u201cdiversity,\u201d which means a Balkanized society, is a source of strength. This is plain reason, and ordinary people agree.<\/p>\n<p>National Rally is also for trade protectionism and government intervention, not market economics, and opposes nationalization of public industries. These are broadly socialist policies, not capitalist or far-right.<\/p>\n<p>The party flirts with Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vladimir-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Vladimir Putin<\/a> and opposes military aid to Ukraine, which suggests a hankering for authoritarian Soviet-style revanchism more than anything far-right. It\u2019s more extreme left \u2014 you know, postcommunist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What we are seeing in Europe as in America is a trend among ordinary people against uncontrolled immigration from countries without strong governing institutions that suffer from profoundly unimpressive records on both liberal democracy and the rule of law. This antipathy to an alien influx is exacerbated by preaching from the domestic Left that Western culture is squalid, hypocritical, racist, and wrong.<\/p>\n<p>It is none of those things, or at least no worse on any of them than anywhere else. And the achievements and civilization of the West are far superior to most. They should be sources of pride. To some they are. Traditional citizens of the West like their nations and their ways of life. They are voting to preserve them. That does not make them \u201cfar-right.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European elections saw significant gains for parties labeled &#8220;far right&#8221; by media, often critical of movements defending national cultures against unchecked progressivism. This surge led to widespread concern about a perceived threat, highlighting the media&#8217;s frequent dismissal of anti-pan-European socialism sentiments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3224,"featured_media":2267710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24154587935686.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24154587935686.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2267710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}