Doesn’t help that their always changing the wordage.
“Liberal’’. “Democrat Socialist’’. “Progressive’’. (progressing towards what? total control?)
One of my uncles was “German-American” and would rant about being a true blue conservative, anti-communist, spit at the mention of liberal, DEMOCRAT.
However the things he believed in politically would qualify him as a Social Democrat in Europe.
The same as the confused “liberals” we have here, who are actually Euro-centric Social Democrat leftists.
If you adhere to the principles of the Founders you are neither “leftwing” or “rightwing”.