Editing Right-wing politics (section)

=== Nationalism ===
{{Main|Nationalism|Neo-nationalism}}
[[File:Darwin restored2.jpg|thumb|Darwin's biological concepts of [[natural selection]] and [[survival of the fittest]] were sought applied to sociology, economics and politics ([[social Darwinism]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Williams, Raymond |title=Herbert Spencer: Critical Assessment |publisher=Routledge |year=2000 |isbn=9780415181846 |editor=John Offer |location=London; New York |pages=186–199 |chapter=Social Darwinism}}</ref>]]
In France, [[nationalism]] was originally a left-wing and republican ideology.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Doyle|first1=William|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordhistoryoff00doyl|title=The Oxford History of the French Revolution|date=2002|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-925298-5|edition=2nd|location=Oxford [u.a.]|quote="An exuberant, uncompromising nationalism lay behind France's revolutionary expansion in the 1790s...", "The message of the French Revolution was that the people are sovereign; and in the two centuries since it was first proclaimed it has conquered the world."}}</ref> After [[Georges Ernest Boulanger|the period of ''boulangisme'']] and the [[Dreyfus affair]], nationalism became a trait of the right-wing.<ref>[[Michel Winock|Winock, Michel]] (dir.), ''Histoire de l'extrême droite en France'' (1993).</ref> Right-wing nationalists sought to define and defend a "true" national identity from elements which they believed were corrupting that identity.<ref name="Knapp" /> Some were [[supremacism|supremacists]], who in accordance with [[scientific racism]] and [[social Darwinism]] applied the concept of "[[survival of the fittest]]" to [[nations]] and [[race (human categorization)|races]].<ref>Adams, Ian ''Political Ideology Today'' (2nd edition), Manchester University Press, 2002, p. 68.</ref>

Right-wing nationalism was influenced by [[Romantic nationalism]] in which the state derives its political legitimacy from the organic unity of those who it governs. This generally includes the language, race, culture, religion, and customs of the nation, all of which were "born" within its culture. Linked with right-wing nationalism is [[cultural conservatism]], which supports the preservation of the heritage of a nation or culture and often sees deviations from cultural norms as an existential threat.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ramet|first1=Sabrina|title=The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989|last2=Griffin|first2=Roger|date=1999|publisher=[[Pennsylvania State University Press]]|isbn=978-0271018119|location=University Park}}</ref>{{page needed|date=November 2016}}

In the 21st century, [[neo-nationalism]] came to prominence after the [[Cold War]] in the [[Western world]]. It is typically associated with cultural conservatism, [[right-wing populism|populism]], [[anti-globalization movement|anti-globalization]], and [[nativism (politics)|nativism]] and is [[anti-immigration|opposed to immigration]]. The [[ideology]] takes historical association in determining membership in a nation, rather than [[racism|racial concepts]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Barber|first=Tony|date=2016-07-11|title=A renewed nationalism is stalking Europe|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/53fc4518-4520-11e6-9b66-0712b3873ae1|access-date=2023-09-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Neo-Nationalism - ECPS|url=https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/neo-nationalism/|access-date=2023-09-23|language=en-US}}</ref>