They are always operating under the assumption that the left will have to go along either way and that placating or cooperating with the left is a waste of time, because the de facto choices in more and more elections, around the world, these days tend to boil down to actual fascism vs a neo-liberal alternative.
Sometimes a more left leaning flavor of neo-liberal prevails, like Labor in Britain, other times it’s France’s tired battle between Macron and Me Pen. In either case, the neo-liberals’ focus is always to attract voters from the right, often by being “tough on crime” or “tough on immigrants” or plain “tough on browns and poors”, supposedly for strategic reasons. The neo-liberals never miss a beat on the treadmills carrying the Overton window to the (far) right.
When the neo liberals aggressively alienate the left to the point where enough leftwing voters can’t hold their noses and refuse to vote for the neo-liberals, resulting in a win for the fascist, the neo-liberals’ analyses will always fault the left for foiling their infallible strategy. You see a lot of those blameless neo-liberals posting here about a certain election here.
These neo-liberala will tel you, with a straight face, that the biggest threat to democracy is that enough people don’t vote against their conviction. Like it’s a mic drop thing to say.
Curious how “big tent” neo-liberals always extend olive branches to the far right when they try to “reach more people”, but never to the leftists.
They are always operating under the assumption that the left will have to go along either way and that placating or cooperating with the left is a waste of time, because the de facto choices in more and more elections, around the world, these days tend to boil down to actual fascism vs a neo-liberal alternative.
Sometimes a more left leaning flavor of neo-liberal prevails, like Labor in Britain, other times it’s France’s tired battle between Macron and Me Pen. In either case, the neo-liberals’ focus is always to attract voters from the right, often by being “tough on crime” or “tough on immigrants” or plain “tough on browns and poors”, supposedly for strategic reasons. The neo-liberals never miss a beat on the treadmills carrying the Overton window to the (far) right.
When the neo liberals aggressively alienate the left to the point where enough leftwing voters can’t hold their noses and refuse to vote for the neo-liberals, resulting in a win for the fascist, the neo-liberals’ analyses will always fault the left for foiling their infallible strategy. You see a lot of those blameless neo-liberals posting here about a certain election here.
These neo-liberala will tel you, with a straight face, that the biggest threat to democracy is that enough people don’t vote against their conviction. Like it’s a mic drop thing to say.
They’re the same picture.