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Currently in the United States the liberal party is the party of free trade while the right-wing president calls himself the Tarriff Man.
by labster 8y ago
Currently in the United States the liberal party is the party of free trade while the right-wing president calls himself the Tarriff Man.
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- lumberjack 8y ago1. The Democrats are not leftists. Liberals are not leftists. 2. Ideologically speaking both US Republicans and US Democrats are Liberals and pro-free trade, Trump is an exception.
- learc83 8y agoLanguage changes, and in American English at least, the definition of liberal has changed. If you use the word liberal to describe what we might refer to as "classical liberal", you will needlessly confuse people.
- wallace_f 8y agoKind of an outlier, though, because the Republicans typically cheer free trade (but then put tarrifs on shoes, cheese, tires, etc, etc, and of course subsidize big agribusineess, Wall St., etc).
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> the Republicans typically cheer free trade These affinities have shifted many times in American political history. For example, Lincoln was a Republican.