Slide from my government class where Bernie Sanders is more left wing than China, Pinochet is extreme right wing authoritarian and Milton Friedman is a sweet right wing libertarian despite advising and defending Pinochet. Obama is more authoritarian and right wing than Washington as well.
It is funny how the occupancy and the death rate of the gulags declined after the US-supported (US literally invaded Russia to help him out) Tsar was defeated. It only went back up when it started filling up with literal Nazis.