Not quite.
Farage displays views from early 20th century conservatism, with a mixture of libertarianism, whilst being a bit of a prat alongside it... in essence I don’t think he’s the model of what conservatism or libertarianism is at its best because he’s a prat, so don’t judge it via him. He’s a bit dad’s army-ish.
Farage isn’t authoritarian and wouldn’t be if he gained power, which is obviously practically impossible.
Putin is very authoritarian and isn’t too dissimilar from the Chinese Communist Party, in the way he uses capitalism but highly regulates it, to the point that he’ll have oligarchs killed and their assets stolen, if they step out of line.
In that way he does display extreme left wing authoritarian tendencies but I wouldn’t describe him as a Communist.
We’re always best off looking at politics like a horse shoe, rather than left vs right on a flat line.
When you’re at the extreme ends of the horse shoe, despite there being a gap, you look very similar to your counterpart at the other end. The difference between Stalin and Hitler was that Stalin hated ethno-politics but was still willing to kill millions of people who weren’t either onboard or helpful to the cause.
The two ends at the bottom of this graph are actually very similar, interestingly Hitler talked about redistribution of wealth, seized wealth from rich Jewish people to give to poorer Germans etc.
95%+ of people are between left and right, towards the top of the graph, despite the fact that people sling insults about others being extremists all the time.
You could even put Farage probably slap bang on the word “right” there.
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