Exercise 3: Why Supporting a Safety Net and Market Regulation Is Still "Liberal" — Possible Solution
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This is consistent, not contradictory, because the chapter's own real
classical-vs-social-liberalism distinction shows that "liberalism" has
never been one single, fixed policy platform - it genuinely split into
two real, verified branches, dating specifically to the 1930s, that
disagree with each other on exactly this question of market
regulation and the welfare state.

Classical liberalism is the branch that emphasizes limited government,
free markets, and individual economic freedom with minimal state
interference - this is the version that would find a strong safety
net and heavy market regulation to be a genuine departure from its
own core principles. But social liberalism (also called modern
liberalism), the chapter's own verified second branch, explicitly
endorses a regulated market economy and welfare-state expansion,
treating the common good as compatible with, or even superior to,
unrestricted individual economic freedom - which is precisely the real
position the party in this scenario is describing.

The party in the scenario, then, isn't using "liberal" incorrectly or
contradicting the label - it's using the real, verified social
liberalism sense of the term rather than the classical liberalism
sense, and both are genuine, real, distinct branches of the same
broader liberal tradition rather than one being a misuse of the other.
The apparent tension only arises if "liberalism" is assumed to mean
only its classical, minimal-government sense, which the chapter's own
material already shows isn't the whole real picture.

ANSWER: This is consistent because liberalism genuinely split into two
real branches around the 1930s - classical liberalism (limited
government, free markets) and social liberalism (a regulated market
economy plus welfare-state expansion, treating the common good as
compatible with individual freedom). The party's own described
positions match the real, verified social liberalism branch directly,
not a contradiction of liberalism as a whole.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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This resolves the apparent contradiction by correctly identifying
which of the chapter's own two real liberal branches the scenario
actually describes, rather than treating "liberalism" as if it only
ever meant its classical, free-market sense.