> Yes, because they are liberal only by name not concept. Liberalism is based on tolerance and civil society as the space of freedom. Exactly. We tend to conf

> Yes, because they are liberal only by name not concept. Liberalism is based on tolerance and civil society as the space of freedom. Exactly. We tend to conflate "left" with "liberalism" because historically in the West these two things have gone together. However, they don't have to, and in recent years they have decoupled. The left (at least in the U.S.) has became increasingly illiberal to the point where they now openly argue for censorship (e.g. anything not of or by the worldview is labelled as "dangerous misinformation"). The right does this too, but they don't seem to be as good as the left at couching it in altruistic language, so it tends not to gain as much traction.