Sure, but that was in the 18th Century. Since then the rise of (at least nominally) socialist parties has pushed liberals and conservatives into alliance and sometimes into the same party*, for example the Australian Liberal Party. The US is slightly odd in that liberals and conservatives used to be located in both parties (think the Northern vs Southern Democrats or the Eastern vs Western Republicans). Now the Republicans have mutated into fascists leaving the Democrats as the de-facto party of liberalism. Of course this is complicated by people like AOC who would not be considered liberals elsewhere in the Anglosphere.
So, for example, the most recent edition of 'The Spectator' has an article warning that socialism sees liberalism as the enemy of equality.
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