Thread by @SteB777

I fully agree with @JKSteinberger and if there is one thing, that has resulted in another Trump presidency, it is the way the centre, and the moderate left, have embraced neoliberalism. It's resulted in ordinary people getting the shitty end of the stick.
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https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger/status/1854094368627396872

THE BIG problem of neoliberalism, is its cult like nature, and the way, the public knows nothing of it, it's invisible, and it's sold to the public, as if this is the only way to do things. Neoliberalsim, has been embraced across the political divide.

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It is this invisible nature of neoliberal doctrine, which has allowed populist right, liars and carpetbaggers, like Donald Trump, to get away with falsely claiming there is a deep state conspiracy, the liberal elite.

People can sense, that system really is rigged.
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However, you notice, that the one thing Donald Trump, and none of these figures of the populist right, ever mention, and that is neoliberalism, the neoliberal doctrine. That's because Trump is essentially a neoliberal, and embraces its doctrine.

4/isrf.org/2021/08/11/the…

If I am wrong, and the populist right, are not really neoliberals, or are opposed to it, then why don't they just come out and condemn neoliberalism? After all, there's no need for conspiracy theories, because the evidence for neoliberal doctrine is in black and white.
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The reason Trump doesn't condemn neoliberalism, or even mention it, is because he himself embraces most of the tenets of neoliberalism.

That is why he makes up things about the liberal elite, the deep state. Because Trump is one of the neoliberal elite.
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Trump and the other right wing figures, couldn't attack neoliberalism, without it becoming rather obvious, that they embrace neoliberal doctrine themselves, and always have.

Hence, the need for the lies and fake conspiracy theories.
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Neoliberalism, is a real life conspiracy, hiding in plain sight. Those that started Neoliberalism, Pinochet, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher, were all right wing Conservative politicians. Not the left or the centre, who only embraced it later.

8/investopedia.com/terms/n/neolib…

Politicians, embracing neoliberal doctrine, and its bastard child, austerity, have made modern politics toxic. With the public baffled, as to why politicians of both the left and right side of the political divide, pursue the same policy, that victimizes ordinary people
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This creating an opening for liars of the populist right, like Trump in the US, Farage in the UK, to claim that they were the heroes who were going to take on the liberal elite. They were able to do this, because of the way neoliberalism, was made invisible.
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However, as I say, Conservatives, have not only embraced neoliberalism, they were the ones that started it.

This is why Trump, Farage, the billionaire supporters of the populist right, never mention neoliberalism, because they themselves embrace it.

11/theguardian.com/books/2016/apr…

This is why the centre and the left, need to throw out neoliberalism. To openly say, it was a huge mistake following neoliberal doctrine. This would then shine the light, on Trump, who still embraces neoliberalism.
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