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Golden Dawn in Greece, Marine Le Pen & the National Front in France, UKIP, etc.
Ultra conservative Authoritarianism is increasing while democracy is declining in countries.
Factors include anti multiculturalism, anti immigrant sentiments and policies in the US & some in Europe from recent migrants; globalization, free market economics, and extreme income & wealthy inequality. Also austerity, unemployment and trends toward nationalism, authoritarian populist political leaders and anti democratic societies and governments.
There are also significant efforts to roll back liberalism & Enlightenment principles IMO.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/29/right-social-democracy-dying-europe-afd-far-right-germany
https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/we-are-witnessing-first-global-alliance-far-right-parties-1930s
Nazi's used 'national socialist' in the term 'NAZI' because it made them more accepted then; but it absolutely was an extreme, authoritarian, far right fascist party & regime. NOT LEFTIST!
Quora:
What does Nazi mean in German?
National Socialist.
The word "Nazi" is an abbreviation for the word "Nationalsozialist".
The full name of the political party was the "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" - the National Socialist German Worker's Party.
Since the late 1930s, however, the term "Nazi" has come to symbolise what that party became, rather than having connotations of "national" or for that matter "socialist."
Indeed, after 1932, the term "national socialist" was banned in the USSR, and Russian texts had to refer to them as "fascists", because the Kremlin didn't like the taint on the word "socialist" that had come about as a result of that party's use of the word in their name.
https://www.quora.com/What-does-Nazi-mean-in-German
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