They don't need to be the current leaders when they can just threaten any elected government into submission, and they have all the power to do it. Trained forces, modern weaponry, popular support.
> And quite the minority in the country considering how high their Jewish president poll right now.
They are not your classic Nazists. Groups like the Right Sector are best described as a "generic form of Ukrainian ultranationalism", which allowed the inclusion of ethnic minorities, including Muslim Crimean Tatars and Chechens, and ethnic Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, and Romani[0]. I call them Nazis as a simplification, as they adopt the same symbology, most of their values and modus operandi.
Also consider how everyone proudly adopted "Slava Ukraini" even if it's the official slogan of Stepan Bandera's wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Imagine milions of Italians saluting with "Duce mia luce", or Germans resurrecting "Sieg Heil".
The mythos of nazi/fascism is quite easy to simplify :
We (religion/ethnic group/nationality) are intrasequely better than (the out-group: French/lybians/Serbs/Anglo-Saxon/muslims/whatever) and the reason why they (are living better/are richer/are more powerful) is because we have traitors in our midst (jews/socialists/communists/anarchists/tzigan/liberals/whatever) who work against us.
If you do not have the second part, you will have a more standard cesarism (that can be left-wing too, like leninism or early trotskism). A recent example in my country would be Gaullism, in a way.
Are they nazi, or 'just' cesarists (with even more nationalism on top) ? Do you know who their internal enemy is? It should be designated and different from their actual foreign enemy. Example : in France, the far-right foreign enemies are muslims, but the traitors/internal ennemies are left-wingers/academia. If they do not design 'traitors', I wouldn't classify them far-right (because they wouldn't be).
> And quite the minority in the country considering how high their Jewish president poll right now.
They are not your classic Nazists. Groups like the Right Sector are best described as a "generic form of Ukrainian ultranationalism", which allowed the inclusion of ethnic minorities, including Muslim Crimean Tatars and Chechens, and ethnic Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, and Romani[0]. I call them Nazis as a simplification, as they adopt the same symbology, most of their values and modus operandi.
Also consider how everyone proudly adopted "Slava Ukraini" even if it's the official slogan of Stepan Bandera's wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Imagine milions of Italians saluting with "Duce mia luce", or Germans resurrecting "Sieg Heil".
.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Sector