One of my first truly political friends responded, shortly after we met, to my ''so you must be on the left, then?'', with a strong "No, I am not on the left, nor on the right. I judge each issue at face value".
This was about 25 years ago, and it took me just about that long to figure out how right he was. (He had other issues, but I won't get into that.)
But this idea that there is a package of more or else associated stuff you have to agree with on the one side, and another similarly disparate package on the other, and that your only option is a binary choice between the two, well...