That just doesn't track history, though. Nixon did many things, like creating the EPA, that would be considered leftist today, not because he liked it, but because that was the political reality of the time. Then Reagan swept in on the Goldwaterite tide. Clinton overtly and explicitly moved right to steal conservative positions with his New Democrat movement.

Now we have a Democratic President breaking strikes as if he were ol' Ronnie, and his supporters defending it because he got some minor concessions from the railroad for one of the unions involved. Even the signature achievement of Obama's Presidency was a Heritage Foundation idea, pioneered as RomneyCare in Massachusetts.

We certainly have moved right in as a country in lots of ways, and somehow we're on the verge of lots of people voting in a dictator.