This became easy to predict about 15 years into the neoliberal project.
It’s the regime’s new economic paradigm.
It's debatable if Trump has any national pride / takes any protectionist actions or if that's just what he claims, but yeah neoliberalism is so poorly defined for people like L Law that I'm convinced it's just an excuse to sound like less of a monster when they unironically oppose actual liberalism.
Look at their replies, squirming and writhing saying "I don't need to define it because everybody already knows."