I suggest reading Louis Hartz's "The Liberal Tradition in America". Also this article:https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/washington-salon-liberalism-214731 …
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What do Europeans call what Americans refer to as “social issues”?
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I'd add that in two phrases the meaning of liberalism is different as well as social. In Europe, liberal means laissez-faire, so social modifies that to suggest exception. In USA, liberal means accepting some role of government, so social modifies that to suggest limit.
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Worth noting that US socialists in the 1930s were fluent in the language of ‘the social question’ to mean economic equality.
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“Red Tory” is one that drives me nuts in Canada. Initially meant old social trads whose antiliberalism & nationalism made them legitimately economically left. Now it means economic liberalism with, surprise, social liberalism. Used to mean George Grant, now Kevin O’Leary
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And I realize I’m using social and liberalism in particular ways.
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