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This is the mirror image of a marxist who insists nothing short of immediate full communism is real leftism, and therefore there has never been any real leftist government.
Right and left are relative. Even Mussolini was not especially right-wing by the standards of pre-French Revolution Europe.
No, it’s not, because the difference is that full right-wing governance has been tried. We have actual real-world examples of what it looks like. Therefore, we can draw conclusions about actual examples, and do not need to rely on empty hypotheticals and speculation. We can easily recognize that there are qualitative differences between the governance of Reagan and the governance of Francisco Franco, or, as you astutely note, the governments of basically every European country on earth 300 years ago. So, I don’t have to measure real-world governments against an imaginary utopia; I can measure them against other real-world governments that exist right now, as well as countless real-world governments that have existed in the past.
Okay, replace "immediate full communism" with "Soviet socialism," then. The point is Bush really was right-wing and Obama really was left-wing in the context of the 21st century United States, because those terms are relative, despite the fact that things could always be right-er (or left-er).
If twentieth-century European fascism is your ideal, I don't think that much recommends full right-wing governance, but I suppose that's a matter of taste.
This is incoherent. Khrushchev was more right-wing than Lenin. Does that mean that Khrushchev was right-wing? Obviously not. There were hundreds of other governments on earth contemporaneously with his, and we can measure him against those governments. We don’t have to only measure him in terms of the local political context. Similarly, if one feudal lord was more liberal-minded than another feudal lord - more tolerant and indulgent toward his serfs, more kind toward women, only flogged gay men instead of having them hanged - that still doesn’t make him a liberal. We can actually compare governments between countries and time periods.
Liberalism didn't exist in feudal Europe. But someone like Thomas Jefferson, a slaveholder, was certainly a liberal by the standards of his time (and a pretty radical one), though he'd be barred from any liberal political party today (and most right-wing ones). Even if you wanted to measure Bush or Reagan against other contemporary world governments, it isn't as though there were a surfeit of openly fascist regimes on the world stage, since the end of WWII the vast majority of world governments at least pay lip service to democracy and liberal constitutionalism. Though I wouldn't disagree that there are and were politicians who were more right-wing than Bush and Reagan, sure.
To an extent, yes. But at a certain point certain political perspectives become so marginalized and irrelevant that to insist they be used as anchor-points for the definition of the political spectrum is to treat "left" and "right" as platonic ideals rather than convenient labels. If someone is going to argue that say Eric Zemmour isn't really right-wing because he doesn't advocate for the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy and the reinstitution of manorial dues that would just be ridiculous.
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