According to The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought, the Right has gone through five distinct historical stages:[61]
1. The reactionary right sought a return to aristocracy and established religion.
2. The moderate right distrusted intellectuals and sought limited government.
3. The radical right favored a romantic and aggressive form of nationalism.
4. The extreme right proposed anti-immigration policies and implicit racism.
5. The neo-liberal right sought to combine a market economy and economic deregulation with the traditional right-wing beliefs in patriotism, elitism and law and order.
I think this suggests center-right today is the neo-liberal right in stage 5, and alt-right are the revival of rights from stage 1 to 4, such as MAGA in the US.
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