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Definitely not agreeing with GP. Progressives are not economic liberals. But you're right, the article has it backwards too. The phrase "staunchly conservative on regulation" seems to have a special meaning in the US that's not applicable elsewhere. In India and Pakistan, for example, "conservative" just means holding on to traditional religious values.

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> Progressives are not economic liberals.

They are under the American meaning of the word liberal, you just don't understand what liberal means in America. You are agreeing with me whether you understand it or not. What you mean by liberal, we call conservative or "classical liberal".

Liberal here doesn't mean what it means in the rest of the world.

> In India and Pakistan, for example, "conservative" just means holding on to traditional religious values.

That's not what it means here.

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