This seems to me like comparing wolverines to badgers. Yes, there is a difference,but they are both mean tempered and very similar animals.
I see sometimes where people argue that it was the Communists who fought the Fascists. They fought in the streets in Germany. The “Republicans” fought Franco in Spain.
Yet if a wolverine kills a badger in a fight, does its nature change?
Look at our Bill of Rights. Systems which in some form or fashion respect those rights are liberal. Those which don’t are tyrannical. There is no way, other than an abuse of language, to argue otherwise.