[SquirrelOnFire]

Right. And I'm saying that political positions don't have to fall on a single line either.

How many axes can you chart a poltician's positions on?

Authoritarian<>Libertarian

Traditional Values <> Social Relational Values

Survival Values<>Self Expression Values

Interventionalist <> isolationist

That's just a few from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum

Say in the US 2016 election Sanders had run as a 3rd party. He was a liberal populist. He might well have been the second choice of both the Trump and Clinton voters, despite not being positioned between the two. He'd still have been the compromise candidate.