Because it wasnt ‘liberal’ it was progressive/left.

Liberals are neither thing. Havent been on that side of things since, like, 1792?

They had no investment in the bullshit required for liberal brainworms, and leftism was stomped out, so the only position left was fasch brainworms.

Edit: cool cringe backwoods hippie proto-communists; another thing fucking liberals had to ruin.