For the longest time, “liberal” seemed like it basically just meant “Democrat” the same way “conservative” has/had been used to mean “Republican.” Now, it seems like it means “bad Democrat” and is even worse than being MAGA the way many seem to use it. Where did its use as an insult within the [relative] political left come from, and what does it specifically accuse/identify someone of/as?
I’ll never understand how “woke” became the word they fixated on to use as an insult. So the opposite is being asleep? Slept? Like, you don’t want to be awake and aware?