It has a strong socialist government but can't feed its own people. Bring freedom and free markets to Russia and soon enough prosperity would arise. But now with globalism their common foe both code words have been left behind. Left and right agree the multinational corporations that dominate the New World Order undermine the power both of the working class and of God-fearing patriotic citizens. Over the last two decades both left and right have been moving in new ideological and political directions that have narrowed the gap between them.
Identity implies identity groups.
And identity groups are those marked by racial, ethnic and religious differences. The right has always believed in differences. It rejected the left's contention that regardless of identity differences, in the end we are all human beings. The only differences that remain, the left contended, are those of class. Yet now various right-wing groups have been moving in directions once advocated by the left.