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Well, I can list a few incompatibilities if you want:

* Right-wing is usually in favor of free market and free enterprise, whilst NSAP stole private property (mostly from Jews) and heavily controlled the economy, also got out of the international financial system.

* Right-wing is usually against gun controls, whilst NSAP was very gun control.

* Right-wing is usually pro free speech for everyone no matter what. NSAP was not pro free speech. Government literally ran the media.

* Right-wing is mostly against welfare state, while NSAP was very pro welfare state. In fact Otto von Bismarck (a personal hero for Hitler) was the creator of the welfare state as we know it.

They do, however share some nationalism views and don't like open borders, and think that protectionism is ok. So there's that.

> Right-wing is usually in favor of free market and free enterprise

Nope; while that's a libertarian point of view also shared (though typically balanced against other concerns, for those not primarily libertarians) by a number of center- and moderate-right (and center- and moderate-left) groups.

> Right-wing is usually against gun controls, whilst NSAP was very gun control.

That's a fairly recent quirk of the American Republican party, not true of the general right-wing.

> Right-wing is usually pro free speech for everyone no matter what. NSAP was not pro free speech. Government literally ran the media.

Free speech, is again, a libertarian position with fairly broad support from the moderate left to moderate right, though those that aren't primarily libertarians on both sides tend to be likely to favor significant restrictions because of competing priorities. Pure free speech has never been a position typifying the right wing.

> > Right-wing is mostly against welfare state, while NSAP was very pro welfare state

No, the NSDAP was not pro-welfare state. (The welfare state is not just any state that does more than libertarian minarchists would prefer.)

The American right loves gun control as long as it's directed against what they see as the proper target. Candidate Trump said he wanted police to stop people on the street and confiscate their guns. The only reason there wasn't a complete revolt in his party over this was the understanding that he meant it would only be done to minorities.

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