Re:Times Change: Inside the New York Times’ Heated Reckoning...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @07:18PM
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> In America it is.
Neoliberalism isn't a left view in America, either. While it's true that only since Trump it's been somewhat displaced by vague mix of kleptocracy and protectionism as the economic policy of the dominant faction of the Republican Party, it remains widely shared between both parties, there's nothing left, even in American terms, about neoliberalism.
> But 90% of people in America will have no clue what you mean when you say things like that.
If I rephrased neoliberalism as “corporate capitalism”, they'd understand it perfectly.
Neoliberalism isn't a left view in America, either. While it's true that only since Trump it's been somewhat displaced by vague mix of kleptocracy and protectionism as the economic policy of the dominant faction of the Republican Party, it remains widely shared between both parties, there's nothing left, even in American terms, about neoliberalism.
> But 90% of people in America will have no clue what you mean when you say things like that.
If I rephrased neoliberalism as “corporate capitalism”, they'd understand it perfectly.