As a result, one high-profile figure interviewed on background said the 2011 uprising had led to a crisis of Egyptian liberalism rather than the expected triumph of progressive politics, after professed liberals either turned away from consensual values themselves or failed to win support for them at the ballot box.
These acts are not merely compatible with liberalism – they are a necessary condition for any society that is free in its culture as well as in its laws and institutions.
The moderation of its Republicans on social issues stems in part from the state's proximity to the Gomorrah of liberalism, Boston.
All that social democracy and liberalism can produce, with their current policies, is the oligarch's yacht co-existing with the food bank for ever.
Today, it was being stressed by the government that David Cameron's call for a more "muscular liberalism" to combat home-grown terror, made in a speech in Munich on Saturday, was not simply rhetorical.
"The Liberal Democrats worked hard to ensure the coalition government's agenda had a clear thread of liberalism running through it – from the priority we gave to mental health and the green agenda, to creating the pupil premium and protecting our civil liberties," he said.
Fourth, Clegg recognised that these are hard times for liberalism.
"Here you have Warren saying the banks are thugs, she supports the consumer which has a natural leftwing sound to it, but I don't think it's putty-headed liberalism, I think she is just an advocate for the small person".
Rubio, to his credit, resists the temptation to immediately create mental applause lines by fatuously misrepresenting all of liberalism with the decontextualized Obama quote, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that: it first appears on page two, not one.
We need to be tougher on welfare and immigration, tougher on conservative values like discipline and character in school, more supportive of communities and patriotism: in short less of leftie social liberalism and of Maggie's economic version, more of the reverse.
Ukip's first elected MP, who characterised himself as the modern embodiment of radical Gladstonian liberalism, set himself at odds with Farage when he declined to offer a specific endorsement of his call for a ban on migrants with HIV from entering the UK.
