Wrong.
The USA is a center right nation. The issue is the GOPe was trying to be liked by the leftist elites and intelligentsia. In the process of that they compromised too much and became DNC-Lite. When candidates run as conservatives they win in landslides. Even Democrat Pols pretend to lean right during elections.
Yesterday the House swore in Democrat Representative Conor Lamb who won a special election near me. If you only saw his TV commercials you would have thought he was a Republican. Nowhere in any of his TV and radio commercials, newspaper ads, and billboards was the word "Democrat" ever mentioned.