Back in my (far left) militant times, we used to say: "la droite a une vision policière de l'histoire" which would translate as "the right has a conspiracist vision of history. By "la droite", we meant the hard (and extreme) right, not the centre right. To be honest, this is also true for some currents in the extreme (authoritarian) left, which explains why we sometimes see odd alliances...

"People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them." - Jean Monnet