Liberalism isn't a party. TR and Lincoln were Republicans. George Wallace was a Democrat.

That's the thing Republicans want you to forget. Liberals have switched parties a couple of times over the last two centuries. They were Republicans during the Civil War, because they wanted to preserve the Republic. Today, Lincoln would be a Democrat.

(He'd also wonder why his idea of creating a country in Africa for the freed slaves to go to didn't take off, but nobody's perfect.)

I grew up in Rhode Island, John Chaffee was a liberal Republican.

Regardless of the terms origins or meanings in different historical contexts, it's most used often an inaccurate slur today by those brainwashed by Fox News, and of course, by Trump, who claims to be a Conservative, despite sounding more like David Duke.

It is in Canada.