Sounds like what usually happens everywhere when there is a big downturn in the economy. The public kicks out the incumbents! ;-)

So in the USA, where the neoconservatives were in, the public kicked them out....and in Europe where the leftists were in, the public kicked them out.

Why would anyone find this surprising? That's what happens anywhere when the eonomy tanks. "Throw the rascals out!!!"

The European Right for the most part is generally rather comparable to the American Left anyway in its overal outlook, so I'm not worried.