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Right-wing is code for not being part of the ruling party block.
I'll continue to equate the right wing with far right extremism until they give me evidence to conclude otherwise. You can call that a code for "out of power" if that's your way of thinking, but it's not mine and I certainly didn't use it that way. I believe it's the reality of the ratcheting overton window for 50 years.
I would agree that far right extremism qualifies as right wing. Trouble is, in Germany the AfD has identical positions as CDU/CSU as of decade or two ago, and both would be considered to be left wing in the US political context. A very left party like BSW was attempted to be smeared to be right wing.
Such labels assigned by the mainstream media have become meaningless, so I would encourage you to look at party programs and their voting patterns in parliaments to gauge where they really stand. I will avoid mentioning the general regression to pre-party times to avoid further confusion.
OK, I'm going to challenge the statement that AfD would be considered left in the US. I'm from the US and I've seen their politics and they would defnitely be considered far right in the US sense (or our current "right" which is MAGA in power). I appreciate your point about media labels, though, so everyone should apply critical thinking to those labels for sure.