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> “Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind,”

That's nonsensical. If somebody leaves the First Amendment behind, they are leaving liberalism behind. If you do not support free speech, you simply are not liberal.

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If you seek to use governance as a tool to strip citizens of their liberty you are demonstrably un-American. That doesn't stop many politicians from doing so and making it a foundation of their party's ideology.

Such politicians are not liberal, no matter which party they belong to.

You are talking text book liberal but I believe the person you are responding to is using liberal to refer to a specific political party, The Democratic Party. Democrats are referred to as liberals or THE liberals in the US.

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