The assumption that what people believe can be neatly arranged around a single axis - typically expressed as left/right or conservative/liberal etc - does not really bear close examination.

For all kind of things there is no natural connection between where we stand on issues. Gun control, abortion, climate change, capital punishment - none of those bear any natural connection with any of the others, let alone with whether we believe in socialist economics. Even where there might seem a natural connection, in practice it often isn't found. For example being against capital punishment and abortion might seem a natural connection.

A more accurate way of placing people would one involving more than one axis - for example a three dimensional model, with the left right axis at right angles with the permissive/authoritarian one, and a third one perhaps at right angles again relating to religious belief.