I (and others) are NOT categorizing Hillary as right of center just because of Trump and Cruz. She's been on the political scene for a long time. I have always thought of her this way.

Her husband Bill was basically the pioneer of democrats accepting conservatives as their own. Compared to the mean average of every other political party in the free world....the Clintons are to the right of center.

This skewed perception you're talking about is what american democrats have been ailing from for 25 years. The 1% used to be taxed at a rate of 70% before Reagan. Trickle-down theory brought that down to 28%. Clinton under-compensated in raising it back to 39%. Barely half of what it was before. Not exactly 'left-wing'.

Bernie is only 'extreme-left' in 2016 America. He is, in fact, a restoration of what democrats USED to be before the Clintons started in with their own version of 'tough on crime' and laissez faire economics.