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That's basically what happened with the word "libertarian". It originally meant libertarian socialist.
We've been surrendering words to the right for at least a century and it hasn't gone well. Every time the public decides a right wing idea is trash, the right rebrands the idea.
They're coming for "anarchist" next with monarchism rebranded as "anarcho"-capitalism.
Ancaps pretty much only exist in the US so elsewhere libertarian still means the original definition.
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A word cannot be defined as a subset of itself.
It isn't. What we now call libertarian socialist used to just be called libertarian.