I hear you: historically, as Hayek has pointed out, liberals were people who favored free markets.
But nowadays, I actually think of “progressive” as a euphemism for “liberal” as most people understand the term today.
Liberals used to be about equality of opportunity.
Now they are about equality of outcome.
>>But nowadays, I actually think of “progressive” as a euphemism for “liberal” as most people understand the term today.
It’s infuriating that people get that so 100% wrong. “Liberal” has very nice connotations and Progs ruined it. If people would learn what Marxists mean by progressive, they could understand. It’s not a big secret. They answer it in their own words. But that takes some work.