"The Jurassic media continues to casually throw around the phrase "right wing / far right" when describing a certain group of socialists - as in Germany's National Socialists -- of the 1930's and 40's.
Nazi was in fact short for the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. Translated it sounds even more left wing: The National Socialist German Workers' Party. The term "workers party" is now almost a universal code term for a communist political party in any nation that is not officially communist.
You can't get much more "left wing" than that.
This does not stop the media from continuing to brand conservatives with the Nazi label. Consider this excerpt from a Reuters story from yesterday:"
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