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This is confusing. Liberalism isn't leftwing, it's right-of-center at best. Most often it's right-wing economic policies with socially left-wing ineffectual lip service. Especially with how far right the Democrats have trended since the 80s and their adoption of a corporate focused form of third-wayism. There are only a handful of representatives who could even be considered slightly left-of-center progressives.
Liberalism could mean a wide variety of political positions, from left to right.
You might wanna give "third way' a Google, because you do not know what it means.
There are very few actual leftists at any point in US politics because leftists don't exist as a substantive bloc of US voters. Bemoaning that people who aren't leftists don't do leftist things doesn't really make a lot of sense
Tangent, but there's a lesson with the third way that's often forgotten.
It worked.
Conservatism was way too popular. The country was just not at a point to go further left, as unfortunate as it was. Reagan ushered in an era of conservative dominance that we're only just now emerging from.