[lafroste]

But when the only options are the right and the extreme right, then something is very seriously wrong."

Well, now I'm confused. How can the defeat of a socialist be construed as a defeat of the right by the "extreme right"? Does being politically "right" or "left" have a different connotation in Euro-land? (OTOH I know we are right, and that our idealogical opponents will be left in the ash heap of history)

[In veno, veritas]

That was my first take. It makes me wonder what I'd hate to see as the extreme left.