1 min readSep 21, 2019
Apparently you’re using “neoliberal” as what Ezra Klein calls “an all-purpose insult.” Ideologically Reagan, W. Bush, and Trump favored market control over government control. Obama did not. There is a vast gulf between neoliberalism and pragmatism (see link above).
Incidentally, pure neoliberalism as described by Milton Friedman encourages government subsidies to the poor but NOT corporate welfare. Republican neoliberalism is a cover for crony capitalism’s defense of plutocracy.