I'd say that's incorrect, to the vast majority of Americans "liberalism" means left/progressive, that's simply what the word has evolved into in the mainstream.

I'd say that's incorrect, to the vast majority of Americans "liberalism" means left/progressive, that's simply what the word has evolved into in the mainstream. You use "classical liberalism" when you mean "classical liberalism" unless you're talking to some kind of economic historian or libertarian pedant and it has more context.