As much as you’d like to back peddle, I was responding to exactly the point you were trying to make. Your point was “the majority of Europeans/westerner in the last few years have elected politicians who self-identify as conservative. Therefore, despite Gawker commentators’ insistence that the average western voter…

So all of those politicians who are members of the conservative party of their respective countries, are either “barely left of Obama” or on par with him, but he’s not considered a center right politician?