Very definitely not an oxymoron! There’s a tendency in U.S. media and politics to use ‘liberal’ and ‘left’ interchangeably, for complicated historical reasons. But they’re entirely different things (such that, for example, in Australia the Liberal Party is a right-wing party not very different from the Republicans in the States).
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2024-05-26 12:41:10
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