Therefore, whenever economic liberalism finds itself under threat from “populism”, it quickly jettisons the principles of political liberalism to which it is theoretically tied. In other words, these “principles” are not principles at all, just convenient postures designed to cloak the unpleasant reality of the economic liberals’ capitalist system.
One of my fav quotes on libs:
https://orgrad.wordpress.com/articles/liberalism-the-two-faced-tyranny-of-wealth