"Neoliberalism" isn't "neo" in contrast to FDR liberalism, FDR liberalism falls within neoliberalism
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The term comes from the idea that classical liberalism (free market economics) was discredited by the Great Depression
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So people in the 1930s saw politics as divided between anti-liberals (communists etc) and "neoliberals" who wanted to save liberalism
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FDR by definition was a neoliberal, as is Bernie Sanders, although Democrats are less neoliberal than Republicans
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Leftist Twitter likes to use "neoliberal" to specifically impugn people who hold progressive social values while being pro-free market
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But this is imo a bad use of the term
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Anyway the actual bugfuck lunatic fascists and neo-feudalistic of the alt-right are not neoliberals but Trump himself clearly is
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US libertarians are clearly the most neoliberal neoliberals, unless they're so extreme they actually ID as "paleo" liberals
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I.e. they want to cut down the welfare state all the way back to Gilded Age robber baron levels
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