Procrustes Stretched
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You are hung up on static periods of time. Of course liberal movements have started inreaction to ceratin things and liberal movements have followed certain dogma, but because a movement is labelled a a liberal movement does not make themn liberal in their actions or views.Modern liberalism is closer to progressivism than it is to classical liberalism.
I disagree. Redefining what liberalism is does not make it so. Liberalism as a philosophical stance is what it is. Modern Progressivism is more like populism by another name.
I find that people who hang out on the internet(s) too often get hung up on periphial issues like the exact definitions of the types of liberalism, when in reality those definitoions are anything but exact in definition.
Ludwig von Mises, F. A. Hayek, and Henry Hazlitt were three of the biggest proponents of classical liberalism in the 20th century. Modern day liberalism is of the FDR or Wilsonian progressive sort. As I said before, liberalism came about opposed to statism of any sort, which is clearly not the case any longer.
Reactionary people are not so much liberals as they are progressives or populists