To quote both of these articles MOS:FIRST:
Radical right (United States):
In the politics of the United States, the radical right is a political preference that leans towards ultraconservatism, white nationalism, white supremacy, or other far-right ideologies in a hierarchical structure which is paired with conspiratorial rhetoric alongside traditionalist and reactionary aspirations.
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Radical right (Europe)
In political science, the terms radical right, reactionary right, populist right, and hard right have been used to refer to the range of nationalist, right-wing and far-right political parties that have grown in support in Europe since the late 1970s.
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Portions of these articles are evidently WP:SAMETYPEFORK; radical right refers to either a political preference in the US, or a term in Europe to refer to political parties. There are varying interpretations depending on the continent, but we should be merging these into a single cohesive article about the preference/term. The only reason we have this situation is because this page was disambiguated in 2015 (courtesy ping RJFF) due to the creation of the Europe topic, whereas a merger at the time would have made more sense.
I've created Draft:Radical right combining "Terminology" from the US page can be taken along with "Terminology and definition" from the Europe page, to give an example of what a page would look like. It's only about 1,500 words (would be less once the lead is merged together), but would be much better than the dab landing page for such a topic. Following that, the titles could be naturally disambiguated (as there would be a primary topic so can be moved to be consistent which similar topics:
Thanks for reading, CNC (talk) 15:01, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
- The term radical right was coined in the 1950s to describe post-war phenonomena such as the John Birch Society and McCarthyism and was later applied to earlier American political movements. In Europe, the term extreme right (originally right-wing extremist) was adopted in the 1970s as one of the categories of political parties, the others being conservative, Christian democratic, liberal, green, social democratic and communist.
- Various writers however have used these and other terms interchangeablely, often with shades of meaning. "Radical right (Europe)" is really a fork of Far-right politics, because it has the same meaning, and should be merged.
- Incidentally, European usage is misleading, because European politics is not studied in isolation. TFD (talk) 18:05, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for your insight, I'm aware from briefly reading the topic that the term originates from the US. From the academic literature regarding UK radical right that I just knocked up, it's very much considered as a subset of far-right politics granted (the main distinction being that far-right can be categorised into "right-wing extremism" and "radical right".) However the far-right article is too big at 13K words, hence there are subtopics like these, if anything it's in need or further spitting. CNC (talk) 18:43, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
- The section on the UK starts, "In the academic journal Western European Politics published in 2024, Martin categorises UK radical right parties as including the British National Party, UK Independence Party, and Reform UK (formerly the Brexit Party), based on "traditional, authoritarian, and nationalist" characteristics." IOW, it merely means parties to the right of the Conservative Party, which has the same meaning as extreme right mentioned as I mentioned above. TFD (talk) 01:11, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
- Martin quite clearly defines the categorisation in the footnotes to avoid ambiguity. The labelling of extreme right is otherwise very much rejected by academics, at least the sources I've used so far on the topic. I've therefore added an opening sentence based on the weight of sourcing. Those sources were all present, I had just neglected to add that detail. CNC (talk) 11:55, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
- The terminology is not consistent or constant. Extreme right and far right can both mean everything to the right of mainstream parties. Extreme right, far right and radical right can also mean the most right-wing groups.
- There is even less agreement on terminology for groups that stand between the most right-wing parties and mainstream ones.
- There is also a convergence on the right so that mainstream right-wing parties now work alongside neo-Fascists. TFD (talk) 13:17, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
- I agree the terminology is inconsistent, this is why I'm proposing creating a primary topic that covers the scope of this. CNC (talk) 13:37, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
- The terminology is discussed at Far-right politics#Terminology.
- The Hope and Hate article, which was among those you linked to says, "The historians David Renton and Neil Davidson essentially divide the right of the political spectrum into conservatives, the non-fascist far-right, and fascism. That seems like the most objective distinction.
- BTW, all the groups in the non-fascist far right could be considered right-wing populist.
- My concern is that we could have multiple articles that duplicate the same information.
- Also, unlike the US, European politics is not considered distinct from the rest of the world. TFD (talk) 15:01, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
- I'd support this, as currently there is no article talking about the radical right that isn't location-specific, and some parts of each of the articles are definitely not entirely relevant to their respective locations. – GlowstoneUnknown (Talk) 00:22, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
- I would instead support renaming both of these articles to "Far-right politics in the United States" and "Far-right politics in Europe" respectively. Radical right is really just a synonym of far-right. — EarthDude (Talk) 21:45, 1 March 2026 (UTC)