If Europe is tilting to the right because of immigration, but their definition of “right-wing” includes Social Democrats and defenders of the welfare state in Denmark. They also use the term “neo-conservative” for parties that want to restrict immigration. Flanders has a populist party that wants to separate from the rest of Belgium and keep Muslim immigrants out — their immigration message has been passed by the Socialist-led government. Actually, a lot of the “right wing” rhetoric NPR finds in Europe sounds a lot like what Democrats in Congress are saying — globalization and competition are bad, protect the welfare state, abandon all morals ye who enter…
Really, what is right wing about this assimilation test:
In a bid to determine whether newcomers can adapt to its liberal
society, the Netherlands is going so far as to show prospective
immigrants a video of naked women at the seaside and gay men nuzzling
in a park.
