I'm having trouble seeing the distinction. Ideologues always focus more on the ideal than the practical. Progressives have their principles--harm avoidance for instance--that they stick to quite scrupulously. In other cases, they have goals, and are willing to sacrifice other ideologies' principles in order to accomplish their goals.

You see right wing people celebrate past figures plenty (Reagan, statues of whomever, etc.) just like left wing people. You see right wing people excusing the Confederacy, inquisition, etc..

You see right wing people focus on goals (winning elections) over principles that they don't themselves hold very tightly (domestic violence, self-enrichment from a supposed charity) compared to those that they do (faith, nationalism, party unity, etc.).

So it really all looks the same to me.