They are not liberals. They are not ‘classical’ liberals.
They are LEFTISTS. When does the left go too far?
To them...THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS, BY ANY MEANS NECCESSARY. They would kill, imprison, spit on, etc., to anyone they don’t like. They are savages with an inner tyrant bursting to get loose.
To be fair, Voltaire, a “classical” liberal, advocated for much of the same crap the left does today, including faking being a defender of free speech only to then turn around and deny it to his enemies when he has the cards, like he did with the Jesuit Order, so I’d argue leftists and classical liberals are one and the same ultimately. At least, the French wing of classical liberals are one and the same with the left. Not surprising, since the left originated with the French Revolution, which was Voltaire’s handiwork alongside Diderot, Sade, and Rousseau.