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I've been reflecting on your comment, since my reply above and would like to run another possibility by you. First, let me remind you that I actually said "seem to be partisan right-wingers ...."

Adherents of "right wing" of U.S. politics are philosophically aligned with the principles embedded in the U.S. Constitution. Rabid left-wingers insist on the "living-document" doctrine, because they share little philosophical ground with the Constitution as actually written. Since they can't get the written Constitution they want through the prescribed amendment process; they cling to the "living document" doctrine, and count on like-minded Justices to don their magic glasses, and read what they want to see between the lines.

Therefore, a strict constructionist will naturally seem* to be philosophically aligned with the "right wing" -- but, that's not being partisan. Partisan politics are very different from pure political philosophy. The calculus of realpolitik muddies the political philosophy. The Democrats have cobbled together a coalition based on identity politics, and class warfare (amongst other things). Some Democrats are actually "liberals" (in the real sense of the word), others are Marxists, others are just thugs and shake-down artists. On the right, I give you RINOs.

* By "seem to be" I mean that a strict constructionist would set aside his or own personal political philosophy, and base his rulings entirely on the law, as written. Even if that Jurist were a Marxist, he would thus "seem" to be a right winger, simply because today's right wing is more in tune with the Constitution.

Exactamundo. The left works to characterize the people-who-actually-believe-in-what-this-country-means as people who are at the crazy right end of the spectrum (”bitter clingers”). What used to be the American ideal and the American consensus is now portrayed as stupid and/or evil.

But the fundamental, underlying problem is that, for the most part, the people who populate this country now are not the same kind of people who lived during Revolutionary times. Back then, and as recently as the middle of the 20th Century, kids grew up with the freedom to explore the world, to gain experiences and discipline that made them grown-up in their mid-teens, and to learn the consequences of disobeying natural law.

By now we've had a hundred years of public schooling. Now, even the teachers are stupid and every major institution in this country is broken. Politics, government, education, health care, and so on are more "dys-" than functional, sapping the country of the resources it needs to move forward. The military is joining the flow towards mediocrity.

We are now -- with few exceptions -- a nation of sheep. That provides a huge opportunity for people who claim to be our shepherd -- and an equal opportunity for a wolf.