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When these types say "the rest of the world" they basically mean western/northern Europe and maybe Australia/NZ. The Republican party is not far right by the standards of the billion people living in Muslim countries, and not even really by eastern European standards. That's to say nothing of the politics of India, east Asia, or Africa, which don't easily map onto our western spectrum. These commenters think they're worldly but their perspective is still very narrow.
That "White genocide conspiracy theory" article is a real piece of work. Typical strawmanning and attacks on motives. E.g., we're told that the "purpose of the conspiracy theory" (as though an observation has a purpose) is to support "calls to violence" (not, say, policy changes), where that violence claim links to the "Accusation in a mirror" article, itself a word salad about hate speech.Besides, I would argue GOP is to the left of many European anti-immigrant populists. At least in the US the GOP pretends they're holding together a multiracial coalition of based minorities, while in Europe they're pushing white nationalism lite talking points. Granted, Trump did defend boers.