Parsing b.s. among those desperate to be liked

When is a lib not a lib, and vice versa?

. . . contract attorneys in Washington are, by and large, liberals. Usually, very liberal. By this of course, we mean the old-school, early 1900s Progressives, not the classic, Thomas Jefferson liberals. We’re talking about the far leftists who changed their label from Progressive to Liberal when Progressive became a pejorative, then back to Progressive when Liberal became a pejorative and people had forgotten that Progressive used to be a pejorative.

A rose by any name, yes, but also a pile of smelly stuff. Anyhow, some of us remember.