Since Reagan, Clinton and Obama have been good at countering the advance made by Reagan, regarding how
Americans view and understand our system.
It takes more than a Reagan every few decades, to remind people how it is supposed to work.
The dems hammer away continually, and few conservatives speak with Reagan’s skill.
The difference between classical and modern liberalism revolves around the idea of positive and negative liberty. Negative liberty describes what the founding fathers believed in: limited government. Modern liberalism embraces the idea of positive liberty, however: the idea that liberty is provided to you through government benefits. Therefore, the more power the government has, the more freedom individuals have. It’s ludicrous, but that’s the driving philosophy behind modern liberalism.
No argument about substance. But when people go looking for “soul” classical liberalism isn’t where they go.