Americas Argentina President
Javier Milei is a right-wing populist who is often referred to in the media as ultra-conservative or
ultra-liberal. Milei's ideology is close to
anarcho-capitalism or
paleolibertarianism. The
Libertad Avanza coalition, led by Milei is referred to as
anti-establishment because it rejects Argentina's long-standing political legacy of
Peronism.
Brazil (2019 – 2023) President
Jair Bolsonaro was described as an ultraconservative during his tenure, often aligning his views with President
Donald Trump. Upon taking office, Bolsonaro nominated ultraconservative
Damares Alves to head the
Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship. His government would go on to be headed by elites who broadened
extractivist activities in the
Amazon rainforest, while having confrontations with the
indigenous peoples in Brazil.
United States In the United States, ultraconservatism first appeared when right-wing politicians and businesses led the opposition to the
New Deal of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Beginning in the 1960s, during the
Cold War, ultraconservatism began to rise to prominence, especially with the
radical right organization, the
John Birch Society. At this time, ultraconservatives were
anticommunist, and opposed to the
civil rights movement, trade unions, and
social programs. Beginning in the 1970s, ultraconservatives attempted to establish their principles into the government and culture of the United States, with the use of
think tanks,
political action committees, and
lobbyists. These groups were typically supported by wealthy individuals, including
Richard Uihlein,
John McIntyre, and George Coleman. Ultraconservatives would then "mark some groups, seemingly based on race, class, and immigration status", in an effort to polarize the public, saying that some groups were "parasitic" to the economy. Following the
election of Barack Obama in 2008, ultraconservatives made alarmist statements about the
United States debt ceiling, calling for large cuts to social spending and the elimination of some social programs entirely. and
ultranationalist views, and is referred by some as having
Han-centric elements. The
Beijing Daily is a mainland Chinese newspaper, referred to by some as "ultraconservative".
Hong Kong Some hardline pro-Beijing conservatives in Hong Kong have been referred to by critics as "ultraconservative".
Iran , 8th
President of Iran (2021 – 2024) "Ultra conservatives"—also known as "neoconservatives" or "
neo-fundamentalists" are among the factions of the
Iranian principalists. This grouping is more
aggressive and openly confrontational toward the West. Socially, Iranian ultra-conservatives are defined by their hardline stance against cultural "
Western toxification" (), which leads to the strict enforcement of religious moral norms. This ideological movement often targets
women's rights and individual lifestyles, portraying them as a battleground against Western
cultural imperialism.
Japan Japan's far-right nationalist organization
Nippon Kaigi has been described as "
reactionary" or "ultraconservative" due to its support for the constitutional amendment of
Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, defense of the
Empire of Japan, and denial of
Japanese war crimes. Since 2006, all Japanese prime ministers from the conservative
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have been affiliated with the Nippon Kaigi. Japan's current Prime Minister
Sanae Takaichi and former Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe were also referred to as "ultraconservatives"; they are members of Nippon Kaigi.
Bryan Mark Rigg referred to the LDP itself as "ultraconservative".
Europe Ultraconservative has occasionally been used interchangeably with
fascism,
ultranationalism, and
right-wing populism when describing the
radical right in Europe.
Europe of Sovereign Nations is a ultraconservative and ultranationalist political party belonging to the
political groups of the European Parliament.
France , Ultra-royalist
Prime Minister of France from 1821 to 1828 The
Ultra-royalists were an ultra-conservative faction from 1815 to 1830 under the
Bourbon Restoration in France. An Ultra was usually a member of the nobility of high society who strongly supported
Roman Catholicism as the state and only legal religion of France, the
Bourbon monarchy,
traditional hierarchy between classes and
census suffrage against the interests of the
bourgeoisie and their
democratic tendencies.
Action Française is a French ultraconservative
monarchist political movement. Its ideology was dominated by
the precepts of
Charles Maurras, following his adherence and his conversion of the movement's founders to
royalism. The movement supported a restoration of the
House of Bourbon and, after the
1905 law on the separation of Church and State, the restoration of
Roman Catholicism as the state religion—all as rallying points in distinction to the
Third Republic of France which was considered corrupt and atheistic by many of its opponents.
Germany The
Conservative Revolution () was an ultraconservative movement in Germany prominent during the
Weimar Republic—between
World War I and the
Nazi seizure of power—with intellectual exponents such as
Oswald Spengler,
Carl Schmitt, and
Ernst Jünger. Plunged into what historian
Fritz Stern has named a deep "cultural despair," uprooted as they felt within the
rationalism and
scientism of the modern world, theorists of the Conservative Revolution drew inspiration from various elements of the 19th century, including
Friedrich Nietzsche's contempt for
Christian ethics, democracy and egalitarianism; the anti-modern and anti-rationalist tendencies of
German Romanticism; the vision of an organic and naturally-organized
folk community cultivated by the
Völkisch movement; the Prussian tradition of militaristic and authoritarian nationalism; and their own experience of comradeship and irrational violence on the front lines of
World War I. From the 1960–1970s onwards, the Conservative Revolution has largely influenced the
European New Right, in particular the French
Nouvelle Droite and the German
Neue Rechte.
Hungary In its first years,
Jobbik held ultraconservative stances, promoting
anti-communism and anti-globalism as some of its core tenets, though it became more successful as its views became more moderate. == In religion ==