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Let's meet in the middle (lemmy.world)
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

It has been the sole economic theory in power in the US since the 1970s

I'm not American so I may be missing something, but I find it hard to say that, for example, Carter and Reagan shared the same economic policy, or Obama and Trump. Only by flattening away any nuance whatsoever would those be called identical.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    First of all, Trump really is very different. All these tariffs are decidedly not neoliberal.

    Trump aside, though, Carter, Reagan and Obama really did share broadly similar policy with regards to free trade treaties and whatnot. The Democrats were better on support for unions, but not so much better that they weren't willing to throw them under the bus of cheap foreign labor.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago

    Their idea of the rightful role of the state in everyday affairs was rather different though, wasn't it? If support of free trade were all that's needed to be a neoliberal, anarchists would be neoliberals too.

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