Anything that doesn’t succeed gets retroactively declared as “not liberal” no matter who actually supported it, so the defeat of Prohibition and eugenics are not remembered as setbacks for liberalism. Now that freedom of speech is under attack, it has ceased to be seen as liberal as well, with hate speech laws being justified in the name of liberalism.
Anything that doesn’t succeed gets retroactively declared as “not liberal” no matter who actually supported it, so the defeat of Prohibition and eugenics are not remembered as setbacks for liberalism. Now that freedom of speech is under attack, it has ceased to be seen as liberal as well, with hate speech laws being justified in the name of liberalism.