1. For someone was born, as I was, in the late 1960s, the recent discrediting of neoliberalism (at least on the rhetorical level) is bewildering even if welcome. Neo-liberalism has been the horizon of our life even if (or especially if) we opposed it.https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1176262794586533894 …
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2. Neo-liberalism, especially after the Reagan/Thatcher revolution & the collapse of the Warsaw bloc, was triumphant in way that no ideology or religion ever had been in human history. If it didn't have near-universal acceptance, it did define and limit all its opponents.
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3. So I can't help but be skeptical. So far, the victory has been more rhetorical than real in policy terms. After all, Trump broke with a lot of neo-liberal orthodoxy in 2016 but has mainly governed as a conventional Republican.
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4. Still, rhetorical victories often precede policy ones. Something has changed so that even centrist Dems now feel the need to disavow neoliberalism. (And market fundamentalism is under attack on the right as well). Something is happening.
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Neo-liberalism’s not dead, it just smells funny.
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Rahm’s still showing up on news shows and has yet to have a house dropped on him.
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Oh, it's not dead. But our situation as human beings and as a country is screaming for something more just. Something like the New Deal. Granted, wasn't just for all by any means.. we need to modernize it. But we are in a similar situation to FDRs time. Wealth inequality, etc.
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More like the west amirite
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We certainly don't want to replace something that may have ceased working with something else that has never worked.
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I mean unless we see some surge in public ownership of resources it's doing just fine right? It doesn't die just cuz people are talking bad about it.
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I misread this as the Mnuchins, probably because of the movie connection.
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Works both wys
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