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I don't thing this is true. If you label Democrat voters as "left" and Republican voters as "right," then there is usually only around a 5% difference in the popular vote during presidential elections.
If you label "progressives" as "left," and MAGA Republicans as "right," I think the right actually has a big numbers advantage, judging by how mainstream it seems to be (FOX News vs MSNBC?). I don't watch MSNBC, so I'm not actually sure if it's really progressive, but what I've seen from FOX is pretty far right.
Going by the media probably isn't a good barometer either of how the country leans, as most/all media outlets are owned by corporations and conservative-leaning investment-class folks who have no interest in left-leaning content. Even something like MSNBC will only go so far to the left, more like center-left and corporate-friendly.
I suspect most people are probably somewhere in the middle or left-leaning, not in total agreement with either party, but generally supportive of policies typically pushed by Democrats that help the broadest numbers of people, many are probably just politically agnostic and don't care to even think about politics that much. However, Democrats suck at messaging and at actually getting their policies enacted, either through ineptitude, naivete, or by design, and the demographic groups they go after are also the least dependable when it comes to voting. So we're left with Republicans usually getting their stuff pushed through because they have no shame and are willing to do questionable things in the pursuit of power.
IDK. Most people I personally know are right-leaning (unfortunately). Either for religious reasons, bigotry, or from drinking the "free-market" kool-aid. They definitely have a different outlook on things. They highly value the nuclear family, hierarchies, retribution, people getting what they "deserve," etc. They think these things are what's best for everybody. A lot of these people don't really follow politics closely, they just think "killing babies" is evil (meaning abortion), the Democrats let crime run rampant, taxes hinder progress and the economy, men kissing is gross and unnatural, the gays, media, and trans' are grooming children, etc.