Usual Name you have it completely backward. It is amazing to me.
Time after time you put blinders to protect your world view.
Today's liberals are not even close to classical liberals. In many cases you are in favor of the big state and anti liberty and freedom. You favor restricting freedom with Carbon credits. All over Europe you restrict speech with hate crime legislation. Everyday your side and establishment republicans find ways to usurp individual freedom and liberty. You try to take away gun rights. You make us wear helmets when riding motorcycles. You try to ban sugary drinks. The list goes on and on. You try to force people to bake cakes and allow men in womens bathrooms. The last think you believe in is trying to keep govt out of our business...
in general...
And while I see Wikipedia said Classical Liberalism started in the 19th century it is pretty much wrong. The name may have be attached by some to that period of time, but the ideas were pre Jeffersonian. When I studied econ and American history I learned that Jefferson a founding father and classical liberal got many of his ideas from other liberals like John Locke. Liberals believe in the freedom and rights of individuals versus the monachy, state or church.
for instance... this site is correct.
https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/what-is-classical-liberalism/
The key, basic insights of classical liberalism were first developed in the late 18th and early 19th century, at which time they weren’t split up into separate disciplines. Was Adam Smith an economist or a philosopher? A sociologist or a psychologist? In some sense he was all of them. And that was true of the other scholars who were around at that time.
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today's conservatism is classical liberalism...
think about what David Brat ran on to defeat his establishment opponent, Cantor.
in lines up almost perfectly with this...
https://mises.org/library/what-classical-liberalism
"Classical liberalism" is the term used to designate the ideology advocating private property, an unhampered market economy, the rule of law, constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion and of the press, and international peace based on free trade. Up until around 1900, this ideology was generally known simply as liberalism. The qualifying "classical" is now usually necessary, in English-speaking countries at least (but not, for instance, in France), because liberalism has come to be associated with wide-ranging interferences with private property and the market on behalf of egalitarian goals. This version of liberalism — if such it can still be called — is sometimes designated as "social," or (erroneously) "modern" or the "new," liberalism. Here we shall use liberalism to signify the classical variety.
