By "classical liberal" they unfortunately seemed to all mean "Bush-Era Democrat." What they saw as Pre-Woke Leftism, with all the same policies and just less "crazy." Not even the "colorblindness" of the late 20th century, as shown by their rush to prop up every minority (race, gender, sexuality) to their talking heads and leadership, but the on the cusp of Intersectionality wokeness about how someone being a "gay Jew who loves blacks" somehow makes them super worth supporting.
The T_D ban gets forgotten a lot, probably because it got dropped after heavy, instant backlash. Which I'll give the userbase credit for, at the time they still had some free speech principle to them over their Leftism. Though if you said the meanie things about women or blacks of gays, then all that went out the window.
By "classical liberal" they unfortunately seemed to all mean "Bush-Era Democrat." What they saw as Pre-Woke Leftism, with all the same policies and just less "crazy." Not even the "colorblindness" of the late 20th century, as shown by their rush to prop up every minority (race, gender, sexuality) to their talking heads and leadership, but the on the cusp of Intersectionality wokeness about how someone being a "gay Jew who loves blacks" somehow makes them super worth supporting.
The T_D ban gets forgotten a lot, probably because it got dropped after heavy, instant backlash. Which I'll give the userbase credit for, at the time they still had some free speech principle to them over their Leftism. Though if you said the meanie things about women or blacks of gays, then all that went out the window.