Exh far out dude
To start with, we have to understand what we imply by the term far-right. Personally, I dislike this term as it is conceptually confusing. A quite moderate centre-right party can be considered far-right if there are no other parties further to its right. When we refer to so-called far-right parties, we aren't really thinking of a spatial position so much as an ideological position. Thus the label far-right should be dispensed with in favour of an alternative. The more popular labels in the literature tend to focus on the extreme, radical, or populist right. What do these terms mean? Well, drawing on the literature, we can suggest that extreme right parties are those that explicitly oppose democracy and favour some authoritarian political structure instead. When thinking of the extreme right, we are really thinking of fascists and Nazis. The radical right by contrast, expresses support for the institutions of democracy but tends to be rather cooler on many of the substantive eleme