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I think you've got to be careful about how you join the dots e.g. Trump was backed by conservatives and did some things conservatives liked ≠ Trump is a conservative
Ngl I relistened to that Origin Story this morning, so points are ringing around my head, but I think it's useful to separate out use of tools and levers from the neo-lib tool kit vs. being a idealogue where everything is a nail for you to swing your neo-lib hammer at.
In the same way I don't think anyone (here at least) is going to argue that Biden is a socialist, however pink some policies might be.
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That’s not an argument. Just because he supported something doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily neo-liberal. It can just be a sensible thing. You can be against Liz Truss’s acations and still be very right wing.
And, fine, let me rephrase my point. “Belief in the independence of institutions is not necessarily neo-liberal. As an example, I would suggest that a judiciary with a degree of independence from the government is widely supported across the political spectrum (and the opposite has been misused by far left and far right governments in history)
In the same way independence of financial institutions is not neo-liberal.
It is much more related to your level of trust in governments to behave well - whether right wing or left wing”