AuH2O
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« on: July 30, 2004, 05:22:59 PM » |
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Well, Gov. Bilbo was fairly far right on some issues, though actually- along with a number of early 20th century Southern politicians- he was somewhat sympathetic to the women's rights movement. The Republican Party, during and after the Civil War, was probably the closest thing... a number of members of Congress and state officials called for genocide after the South had surrendered, as well of course as depriving whites the right to vote. That is the only time US states have been run by military governors, so regardless of the circumstances that wins the comparison test.
Pat Buchanan isn't anything close to being fascist, he's just a conservative that doesn't have to get elected.
The BNP is fairly stupid, I don't think they really understand politics very well. They don't represent English tradition in policy terms (though I guess no one else does either, but they're even worse) and have no real rationale for their existence. In reality, they are a good thing for the mainstream parties: they occupy the space a legitimate rightist party could.
Le Pen, on the other hand, has a clear nationalist ideology that takes into account modern economy and government... though he doesn't have much to say in terms of detailed domestic policy proscriptions.
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