The problem with thinking about politics as having very few positions you can take, is that you lose all nuances.

You can take any topic, and broadly list them on a spectrum of; wants more of it | wants the current amount of it | wants less of it.

In that world, there's only three takes. Then we can list a few issues, like; Immigration, income tax, capital tax, property tax, military spending, healthcare spending, school spending.

That's 7 very high level topics, causing 2187 unique positions in a tripolar world. If you expand that to 12 topics you care about, you're having 533 thousand different positions.

If you then expand the choices a bit from 3 options, to 5 options. For the 7 topics you'll now have 78 thousand positions and for the 12 topics 244 million positions.

All of this to say, political stand points is a fairly complicated multi dimensional vector. Forcing us to some degree to focus at singular issues at a time and dumbing down how we communicate it to find people we have some things in common with - But the world has dumbed it down too much, especially in the US, 30 years ago it was common politicians around the world could have their own opinions within topics that wasn't a part of the core ideology of their political party - That's pretty much dead today.