Steven Hale
1 min readSep 21, 2019

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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.

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