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as i recall, 'liberalism' became a 4 letter word during the Reagan administration ...

Go back another decade to VP Spiro Agnew who, before he was compelled to resign as Vice President due to his personal corruption, made public and linguistic sport of skewering "Radical-Liberals" ...

TOMORROW, October 11, is the 35th Anniversary of AGNEW's RESIGNATION!!

Check this out from TIME Magazine 1970 (it might sound familiar):

His [Agnew's] speeches continue to describe some of the real radicals — bombers of campus buildings, assassins of police. Then he almost invariably establishes a link between Weathermen or their ilk and liberal Democrats. In Albuquerque, he said:
"Make no mistake. This radicalism that infects our Congress and poisons our country is at best a bizarre mutation of Democratic liberalism." Essentially Agnew was a thug (Hello, Todd!) but he did have a way with language. (However the real credit for most of that must go to Nixon / Agnew speech writer William Safire.)

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