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It is sad how right-wing populists in Europe seem to take over overwhere. This is just one example of the mayhem they cause with short-sighted, fear-driven policy making -- I dread the upcoming votes in Germany, when the AfD (a far-right, but very successful party) is going to expand their power considerably.

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Yet people generally believe that right wing parties are good for business, despite massive piles of evidence to the contrary.

Germany's current government is anything but right wing and it's the only large economy on this planet that's literally shrinking.

The current government doesn't have much to do with it, though. This is the results of decades of over-reliance on cheap gas from Russia for energy, chronic lack of investment in infrastructure, and perhaps a little complacency.

You don't count the UK & Japan as large economies?

And I didn't say that left-wing parties were good for the economy, I just said that right-wing parties weren't.

If you want a business-friendly party, you have to examine their platforms.

For example, Trump's 10% import tariff proposal would destroy the American economy. But that sort of proposal is more common in left wing parties.

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