Many leading neoliberals actively aligned with exclusionary nationalist right-wing parties

Evidence

Many observers felt that neoliberalism lost its latest life with the victory of Brexit and Trump in 2016. Political diagnoses have pitched an ascendant populism against a degenerate neoliberalism reaping the effects of the inequality and democratic disempowerment it had sown. Yet a closer look at the standard-bearers of the right throws this dichotomy into question. We find that many neoliberals are more than willing to find a middle ground between their own principles and those of an exclusionary culturalist, and even racist, right. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 24

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on Islamophobia and the far right — the populism-versus-neoliberalism dichotomy collapse parallels arguments in The New Crusades about War on Terror conditioning. — connects to: Neoliberals have readily allied with exclusionary and racist right-wing movements. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 24; Neoliberalism forms one distinct faction within a fractious New Right coalition. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 109; Neoliberal figures deliberately blurred their boundaries with rival right-wing factions (+1 more)
• SEED: Angle: ‘Neoliberalism was never antithetical to nationalist populism’ — tracing the actual institutional overlaps rather than the progressive caricature.

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals have readily allied with exclusionary and racist right-wing movements. #corroborates (0.97) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 24
• Neoliberal figures deliberately blurred their boundaries with rival right-wing factions #expands (0.82)
• Neoliberalism forms one distinct faction within a fractious New Right coalition. #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 109
• Neoliberalism deliberately pairs moderate and hard-right positions to dominate debate #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 506