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"I asked neoliberals about their political ideology and the tremendous backlash it's received from all over the place latelyespecially since Trump won.
If I've learned anything from having my eyes glued to politics Twitter and the punditry it inevitably spawns for 12 hours a day, it's that I am ruining my life and desperately need help. But more to the point, I've also learned that in leftist circles, getting deemed a neoliberal hack is the kiss of death.
The label of "neoliberal shill" is often lobbed at mainstream Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, along with French president Emmanuel Macron and Canadian heartthrob Justin Trudeau. But it also gets chucked at pundits like New York's Jonathan Chait, Vox founders Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias, and the New York Times's Thomas Friedman, as well as celebrity activists like brand-loving Black Lives Matter advocate and education reformer DeRay McKesson."
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xab5b/everyone-hates-neoliberals-so-we-talked-to-some