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I think at this point most people don't have a a political ideology based on fundamental beliefs, rather their politics are just based around whatever they don't like. For example, many leftists these days just don't like capitalism, probably because support capitalism is not in their perceived self-interests at the moment, and have very little care for the actual historical-materialist beliefs that serve as its basis. Many conservatives are the same way - their beliefs just exist as a reaction to leftist/liberal beliefs, and to any extreme right-wing beliefs such as Fascism and National Socialism. Fascists and National Socialists exist primarily in opposition to liberalism and leftism as well.
Liberalism is one of the few modern beliefs that doesn't exist in reaction to anything but instead subsists on the fundamental basis that all humans have inalienable rights. Traditionalists are also *reactionary* but some of the things that traditionalists believe also have a set basis, depending on what flavor of traditionalist comes to mind - the divine right of kings is a fundamental basis for a belief that some traditionalists hold.
I think a lack of a fundamental belief basis for any ideology will lead to the downfall of such ideology, for example the soviet union fell after many of its bureaucrats lost their adherence towards communism after seeing how prosperous even poor citizens were in capitalist countries. There's no need for communism if poor people under capitalism live better lives than rich people under communism.
Take all this with a grain of salt, however. I don't have a degree in political science and someone is bound to nitpick and state that their beliefs exist on a fundamental logical basis therefore this generalization that I made is completely wrong.