> privatization, financialisation, tax cuts, the retrenchment of social welfare
Also, neoliberalism is much more crafty with propaganda, by necessity. Neoliberals use advertising and public relations to mask their alleged conflicting agendas.
For example, Trump is a neoliberal in libertarian clothing, while Clinton is a neoliberal in democrat clothing. They are both neoliberals. If they weren't, they would lack the cooperation from private interests needed to run.
Libertarians lack cooperation from the private sector because their public image is not "supportive, caring",
Democrats lack cooperation from the private sector because their actual political interests (like defending the working class) are in conflict with it.
So, neoliberalism makes the choice easy by combining the best of both worlds: dystopic support for corporate takeover AND the public image of loving kindness.
Which is exactly true of libertarianism, which sees the only role of government as protecting it's model of property rights, which are precisely private interests.
> For example, Trump is a neoliberal in libertarian clothing,
Trump is neither a neoliberal norte does he dress in libertarian clothing. He's more a kleptocrat in authoritarian populist clothing, which is about as far from a neoliberal in libertarian clothing as you can get.
> while Clinton is a neoliberal in democrat clothing.
Neoliberalism is overtly the dominant ideology of the Democratic Party; Hillary Clinton is (and has for a long time been) a neoliberal in neoliberal clothing; though in the 2016 campaign she did try to preempt Sanders by adopting some progressive populist accessories.
Sanders ran as a populist/egalitarian candidate. I feel that neoliberalism will die, in fact the fact that Trump won, is the nail in the coffin, I lean towards Sanders philosophy more, personally, -- but with technological unemployment going to rise to more than 40% of existing jobs being gone by 2030, and income inequality only going to rise even more, there will eventually be a revolution of sorts.
If not a bloody one, then one of ideals, you can see it already in red states turning blue, or more people running for elections than normally would. In Utah for example more people are running as democrats than ever have before during an election cycle. Chances of winning are slim, for sure -- but more people are getting involved because they're starting to realize it's the only way to make a difference. Scientists are even jumping in, because for some reason the 'right' seems to hate science and education.
