Are you aware that from the 1980s to the early 2000s, the word "liberal" was worthy of enough derision that people would openly cringe at the term? Republicans

Are you aware that from the 1980s to the early 2000s, the word "liberal" was worthy of enough derision that people would openly cringe at the term? Republicans were fantastically successful at two things politically: tying the support of social programs to the Red Scare and gathering support of trickle down economics by opposing desegregation efforts.