Nonsense. The terminology comes from the French Revolution, in which the right wing was for preserving the establishment monarchy. Ever since, "right wing" has colloquially meant support for preserving the established order.
Yes, and monarchy is a long standing cultural tradition going back long before the establishment of modern nation states and the bloated megalithic monarchies they produced. I don’t see how what I said goes against the origin of the term (which I am of course aware of).
Your definition is overly narrow. Were the Nazis left wing or were they fighting to preserve Weimar? Is the contemporary far right fighting to maintain the current status quo? Was overturning Roe v Wade aligned with left wing interests or right wing? Etc.
One of the most important insights raised by the French Revolution and those who study it is that cultural traditions were not challenged. Working people were not willing to part ways with the cultural traditions associated with the monarchy, despite aggressively opposing the politics of the monarchy. It's all but impossible to study the French Revolution without grappling with this contradiction.
>Were the Nazis left wing or were they fighting to preserve Weimar?
They were right wing by every account. Any doubt was universally discarded with the Night of the Long Knives. No serious historians disagree with this.
>Is the contemporary far right fighting to maintain the current status quo?
Definitely. The current status quo is capitalism and all stripes of the right, including both the Republicans and Democrats in the US, merely represent the interests of different capitalists, including the minority who insist their desires are closer to feudalism (like Peter Thiel).
>Was overturning Roe v Wade aligned with left wing interests or right wing? Etc.
It's only right wing under capitalism, due to the drastically unequal burden of raising children under capitalism.
Furthermore, defending Roe v Wade alongside the Hyde ammendment (as the Democrats do) is also right wing. The Hyde ammendment is a strictly economic measure that outlaws subsidizing abortion services with tax revenue, ever further dividing the rich from the poor.
A left wing effort would have focused on overturning the Hyde ammendment decades ago in addition to codifying Roe v Wade, but doing so would undermine the tremendously profitable American heathcare system so the Democrats (a right wing party) would never consider it. Note Obamacare was a windfall for the healthcare industry, a key donor of the Democratic Party.
