Too obvious to be funny, but i still wanted to draw a shitpost.
To be fair, this is more an American english thing. Re-quoting the relevant part of the Wikipedia article
In Europe and Latin America, liberalism means a moderate form of classical liberalism and includes both conservative liberalism (centre-right liberalism) and social liberalism (centre-left liberalism). In North America, liberalism almost exclusively refers to social liberalism.
even that’s not entirely accurate. in hungary for example, “libsi”, “liberális” means what it does in mainstream american politics (rabid capitalists that are not necessarily against gay people existing). this isnt that surprising, since orban hired former republican campaign managers to build up his image/rhetoric
