WHY has the tragedy put a "spotlight" on right-wing sentiment across Europe?
Another (equally debatable) explanation is that arable farms need cheap vegetable-pickers and that the consequent foreign immigration into otherwise homogeneous rural areas stokes right-wing sentiment.
That would relegate the caucuses to little more than a test of the party's right-wing sentiment, and would do little to identify and propel the eventual nominee.
That same year, a 14-year socialist presidency was toppled by the election of Jacques Chirac, ushering in a wave of right-wing sentiment and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Less than a week before a French parliamentary election that is regarded as a critical gauge of right-wing sentiment, a major newspaper today published what it said were new allegations by four witnesses that the far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen tortured people he accused of hiding weapons during the Algerian war of independence.
Right-wing sentiment and extremism have tended to find more fertile ground in Germany's former east - fuelled, some argue, by the social and economic inequality that followed reunification.
The limited amount of support received by Zbor itself stemmed from the fact that radical right-wing sentiment was not strong amongst the Serbian population.
And the rising tide of right-wing sentiment in the country may also be increasing the attractiveness of an attack for ISIS and local affiliates.
When those Muslim terrorists figure out that Klein is using their words to inflame right-wing sentiment against them, Klein will be in a lot more trouble than the typical reporter who burns a source.
But his administration had already spent years orchestrating mass deportations, deepening the links between immigration enforcement and the criminal justice system, and pledging to secure an already-militarized border — thus lending credence to right-wing sentiment that immigrants are criminals or hostile foreign agents.
