@krisnelson@legal.social on Nostr: npub1hpcdf…ghjn3 Well, I'd say here in the US, FDR in the 30s redefined "liberal" ...

npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3 (npub1hpc…hjn3) Well, I'd say here in the US, FDR in the 30s redefined "liberal" to fuse progressivism (gov interv. can be good, actually) with a smidge of socialism (not too much, we want to help people *work for pay*) plus rights-based, pro-democracy liberalism (really, regulated market capitalism + individual rights). That move was key to our divergence from the international def of "liberal."

I'd posit that as radical reactionaries took over "conservative," that US def of "liberal" grew unstable.