To be fair, Jimmy Carter was in reality the first neoliberal president but besides cutting taxes for the wealthy was largely innefectual and less ruthless in their neoliberal persuits compared to Reagan.
If you want to learn more about it, you should check out Thomas Franks “Listen Liberal, whatever happened to the party of the people.”
But yeah, I think it’s largely complicated but when going for republican or republican lite, republicans tend to go for the real thing and the working ejected and dejected working class don’t show up… Or in Kamalas case they show up for the other guy.
To be fair, Jimmy Carter was in reality the first neoliberal president but besides cutting taxes for the wealthy was largely innefectual and less ruthless in their neoliberal persuits compared to Reagan.
If you want to learn more about it, you should check out Thomas Franks “Listen Liberal, whatever happened to the party of the people.”
But yeah, I think it’s largely complicated but when going for republican or republican lite, republicans tend to go for the real thing and the working ejected and dejected working class don’t show up… Or in Kamalas case they show up for the other guy.