What happened to the witches?

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You're misunderstanding me. Those terms are bandied about here in American without the people who use them having more than the vaguest idea of what they actually mean. Basically they're a stand in for any phrase you might use to explain that someone is not part of the Religious Right.

Well, I don't know. If they were conservatives instead of liberals, no one would call them liberals.
If they self-identify as liberals, it really matters little if the people who use them for those people know what they really stand for.
However, it really does matter with which context you use them. Like for example, calling someone "liberal" or "libosh" as we use the word, can have different meanings depending on who says it.
The same goes for the liberals, when they anyone else but them any names, if they bother to do so.