Many such cases.
It's a shame really, could have been a more interesting article if it didn't try to make things black and white.
This is described as reactionary, a core element of the right; whereas the left wants societal progress, despite or because it breaks up old hierarchies and crusty structures, and gives people equal chances, empowers them through education, wants to set them free through collective ownership.
The whole political orientation is a scale, although not of two dimensions, but more, for example if we consider fiscal and corporate views.
But the terms left and right are definitely a valid spectrum and description of social progressivism vs. social conservativeness.