Was America viewed as being to the left of most of Europe in the 19th Century?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Until the 1870s it was the only example of a large nation managing to maintain a stable democracy (at least in its minimalistic sense as a system without class barriers to political participation) in the modern world, which certainly placed it to the "left" of most European countries at the time. Third Republic France joined it after 1871, with some fits and starts, and then most of Europe only embraced democracy after WW1.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I believe it was yes and Russia ironically enough was the most right wing nation in 19th Century Europe.

Russia was an absolute monarchy back then.

Even more than that: almost all liberals/radicals/socialists viewed Russia and the Tsar as a representative of everything that was evil and backward, with a surprising amount of conspiracy theories about the Tsar himself bankrolling reactionary movements (Marx, for example, was a full on believer).

Back then leftists could recognize a far-right Russian autocrat as a fundamental danger to democracy. Now a lot of them make up absurd excuses for him and a few even actively celebrate him as an anti-imperialist hero. We really have fallen off...