Not sure how my definition conflicts with your explanation here. I agree with everything you're saying, but I'm speaking specifically about the media so when I say they're DNC shills I just mean that they do all they can to play the defence for DNC insiders and establishment politicians within that structure. This isn't just about anti-Repub bias either, that's to be expected, it's about the way they treat outsiders on the left like Bernie for example, or more recently Tulsi and Yang.
Neoliberals love to fearmonger about the right, but the people they fuck over the most are independent leftists and progressives.
Neocons and neolibs are the scum of the earth.
It's more about nuances in usage. 'Neoliberal media,' for example, seemed strange. This would perhaps be a good designation for, say, Fox News before Trump (and to large extent after Trump as well), because much of their reporting is unapologetically ideological and pro-free trade. Perhaps maybe
National Review,
The Freeman, and, to a lesser extent,
Reason could also be labelled as such, but otherwise, I don't think that 'neoliberal' is the best, most pertinent, or most accurate adjective to choose for who you're attempting to negatively denote.
The sentence that's highlighted, I highlighted because I don't think the first clause is historically accurate, and it's only presently accurate if you consider Trump to be the full embodiment of the Republican party. The Republican party is still the unabashed neoliberal party, as they have been since the 1970s, and Republican members of the Senate and House are fighting Trump's protectionist policies tooth and nail. The Democratic party first became potentially culpable of the neoliberal charge in the 1990s, when the party was pushed to the right by Clinton (the same phenomenon was witnessed in supposedly left-wing governments in Britain and Germany in the early 2000s). Bill Clinton is himself a neoliberal, but he normalized trade relations with China with the support of the Republicans in Congress, and with Democrats vehemently opposing it. Democrats were again quite skeptical of the free trade agreements put together by Obama (party leaders aside), whereas Republicans were largely in support of it.
I'll admit that now we're in a stranger place since Trump's gone and shit in the punch bowl, causing many Democrats to oppose anything Trump supports and vice versa.
I'm just quibbling about small fries. I think we're otherwise on the same page on this.
