<i>It was strange to see that the globalist was on the right and the protectionist was on the left and that is exactly the opposite of what we are seeing in the US election this year.</i><p>Realistically, the terms &quot;left&quot; and &quot;right&quot; don&#x27;t mean a damn thing in modern politics, at least not in the US.  There&#x27;s not really a cohesive ideology that you can say is &quot;the left ideology&quot;, or one you can call &quot;the right ideology&quot;.  Both labels are, at times, attached to a smorgasbord of ideas, some related, some unrelated, and probably some that are diametrically opposed to each other.<p>Mostly those words exist simply as pejoratives now.<p>And to the extent that they have <i>any</i> meaning, the idea of one dimensional model of political orientation is brain-dead anyway.  You can&#x27;t actually reflect the variety of political belief like that.   Take, for example, Libertarians, who are, as the old joke goes &quot;left of left, AND right of right&quot;.  That shouldn&#x27;t be possible, and yet, here we are.<p>We really ought to quit talking in terms of &quot;left&quot; and &quot;right&quot; and find a richer and more consistent model to describe political orientation.