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The terms "liberal" and "conservative" applied by moderns to the politics of the Era are completely meaningless, just as "Browderite," "Fosterite," "New Dealer," "Taftite," "Coughlinite," "America Firster" and "Townsendite" are completely meaningless when applied to the politics of today.
In an attempt to tie the politics to the purpose of this thread in a non-ideological way, and knowing Lizzie and others will have some good insight - let me ask a question. Today, liberals, progressives, conservatives and libertarians - for example - have incredible fights (mainly verbally / intellectually) over what the name of their own group means or represents or who is a "true...." Did this same sort of internecine struggle go on back in the Golden Era within groups over their names and what they represented ideologically?