You have taken the bait to heart - dished out by the US socialist left which more closely identifies itself with the Communist movement. Ever since Hitler betrayed the Communists by invading Russia, the US left has hated the NAZIs and sought to identify their enemies in the US as NAZIs or ‘right wingers’.
You, as a proud Conservative, are neither ‘right’ nor ‘left wing.’ Rather, you stand for conserving the principles this country was founded on, as well as Christian morality, etc.
Labeling yourself as a ‘right wing’ Conservative is to fall for the semantic trap laid by the left - words mean things and to fall for the trap is to muddle your message - as the left wishes.
Yup.
The right v. left paradigm just does not apply to American conservatism, which tries to conserve an ideology quite differnt that either of the groupings in the French Revolution from which the terms are derived.
The American Left, OTOH, is just a branch of the European Left.
It should be noted that while Nazism is at root a socialist and leftist ideology, it also incorporated a great deal from the European Right. What it has almost nothing in common with is today’s American conservatism.
The origins of ‘left’ and ‘right’ are based on the events of the French Revolution. When the Estates General was convened in 1789, the radicals and ‘progressives’ sat on the left hand side of the chamber, the conservatives (who literally wanted to conserve France’s traditional institutions, including Christianity) sat on the right.
Conservatism can therefore accurately be described as ‘right-wing’. There was nothing conservative about the Nazis. They were radicals who loathed Christianity and the old order and sought to tear it down and rebuild society in their own image, embracing such ‘progressive’ policies such as eugenics.