>For economics (both sides) healthcare, labour, "defense", energy

Those are arguably closer to "economic" than "social". Energy is plainly economic. Even healthcare and labor at the end of the day, boil down to dollars and cents (ie. how much people are paying for healthcare and how much they earn).

>speech

Having the strongest free speech protections in the world is "far right" now?

>religion

The Republicans might be "far right" on religion, but I don't see how the Democrats are. They can certainly be more secular (think the CCP), but at least they're not obviously religious. Compare this to the UK and Denmark which have state regions, and the christian democratic union in Germany.

>basic human rights

Clarify. "basic human rights" has been muddled by the left to include mean stuff like "healthcare", as well as the right to mean "right of babies not not get aborted" and "kids not being groomed".

If you think the UK state religion is in any way relevant to this then you are sorely mistaken. The Church of England has little to no influence on daily politics and is a historical oddity. All political parties, left and right, are essentially secular. Religious politicians basically have to keep their faith quiet while gaining and maintaining office. Blair is a good example of this.

> It's really only identity politics where the left is actually on the global left, and then it's far-left.

That rings true, but how did the US get here? How did identity politics suddenly come to be the most important thing, bringing the world order to its knees?

I don’t actually think it’s far left though. And they are certainly much less effective than other socially liberal parties in Europe. In the UK it was our right wing party that legalised gay marriage, for example. Europe is a lot more woke than the US (and a good thing too)

The American left seems to be very focused on making sure nobody will ever need to feel even the slightest bit offended or pressured. Best intentions, I'm sure, but I don't think that's an achievable or even a desirable goal. A healthy society requires a certain amount of peaceful friction.

Europe seems to be following America's lead (as we always do/did), but it hasn't reached the same extremes and probably won't, imho.

US is still pretty far-right on social policy by the standards of most of Europe. This is an average, there’s lot of outliers such as even the proper left in France being weird about Muslim dress.

Since when is defending freedom of speech a right wing issue?

It will soon stop being considered that, when Trump and Musk keep widening their censorship apparatus.

College campuses are already a 1A-free zone with the intention to deport "anti-Semitic" students