https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monk...-moderate/

Interesting piece. It describes Donald Trump as an ideological moderate. Someone who may have extreme positions on either end of the spectrum.

Small excerpt:

In a recent working paper, we show that these ostensibly moderate American voters don’t care much about whether candidates are ideologically moderate per se. What they do want is politicians to represent the contents of their own mixed bags of views. As others have noted, our research has long made the case that many voters want a candidate with eclectic but extreme positions on key issues, especially the very ones where Trump has staked out extreme stances.

When we wrote our paper there weren’t many candidates out there who took the extreme issue positions we argued were popular among voters, so we had to rely on experiments and artificial candidates instead. Skeptics wondered whether a candidate that appealed to a mix of the extreme views on the left and right could really gain much support.

Now that Donald Trump has arrived, we can see how well our ideas explain an actual extreme candidate’s support. To do so, we surveyed Americans in October and computed a measure of respondents’ left-right ideology based on their pattern of responses across issues. We also asked questions about two policies where Trump has departed from party orthodoxy: immigration and taxes.

He's a National Socialist. Doesn't really fall in a traditional left/right spectrum.

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He's the most conservative candidate in the race.