I wonder if we should distinguish the whole political right from those individuals and groups that the news media treated as exemplars of the political right.

I wonder if we should distinguish the whole political right from those individuals and groups that the news media treated as exemplars of the political right. The news media seem to cast conservatives and liberals as each having highly homogeneous views over a very large number of topics. But when I talk with people face-to-face, I haven't sensed such a strong, consistent clustering of beliefs within those two groups.