Helsing posted:

So another day, another article that out of nowhere is celebrating r/neoliberal, a subreddit nobody had heard of a month ago. I wonder if this is just econ journalists getting super excited by the idea that kids these days are turning to neoliberal memes or if somebody behind the scenes is actively trying to push this crap into people's newfeeds as part of a broader pushback effort against "extremism".

In this case watch a economics professor trying to pretend that FDR and paleoliberals are actually neoliberals.


It's remarkable watching somebody with a PhD trying to stretch the term neoliberal so broadly that it covers both the New Deal and the people whose central political project was rolling back the New Deal.