Belgium, Netherlands, Germany,.. all have had for the last two decades, or to be precise at least the last 15 years, mostly been run by governments that are "centrum right".
That means "liberal conservatism".
(Belgium, the dominane of NVA, MR, VLD, CdV)
(NL has Rutte since 2011, before that was Balkenende since 2002)
(Germany has Merkel since 2005)
(None of these is socialist or leftist qua political compass)
I hope that in the following years, people will finally wake up that this is precisely the problem.
The idea that one can combine "conservatism" with "liberalism" must be strongly refuted.
And I do mean "classical liberalism".
Another big error, highlighted by Sid Lukassen, was allowing conservatives take economic policies, while simultaneously let the socialists have education and welfare, as was costum in many "democracies", this was a grave error.
Countries like these West Euro Germanic states are culturelly ethnically and economically ruined, far more than socialist states have been.
One of the reasons the much more socialist France annoys the muslims so much, is precisely because there is a French Nationalism that dares to show its teeth, that dares to defend its secularism.
And in contrast to the American nationalism, French nationalism is very much against capitalism and classical liberalism, it is, even in its "conservative" and "rightwing" forms, unabashedly socialist!
Even socialist regions or countries like say Wallonia and Italia, while being socialist, and having left wing governments, will still be nationalist when they need to be. Italian leftists, Wallonian socialists,.. love to take the money from gullible Germanic Euros.
There is need for a conservatism, nationalism that is not blindly pro liberalism and capitalism, but that endorses nationalism, protectionism, when it suits them.
Successes of Trump and Brexit were the birth of this.