In my (West Coast US) circles the word ‘Liberal Democrat’ is taken to mean an economically right wing but socially left wing. To my immigrant ears I’ve always taken it to be a right wing term. Democrats also come in the conservative flavor, where they are not only economically right wing but also crony capitalists. Joe Manchin is an example of a conservative democrat while Gavin Newsom is an example of a liberal democrat (Joe Biden is somewhere between them).

In my circles we consider both liberal democrats and conservative democrats to be bad (though conservative democrats are significantly worse; and any kind of republicans are infinitely worse). We also have progressive democrats which we—most of the time—consider good.