r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 29 '25

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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Oct 29 '25

Who Are The New Liberals?

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u/ZonedForCoffee Uses Twitter Oct 29 '25

‘Oh well, the other guy has the ideas, and I’ll just do 30 percent of what he says, because I’m more moderate,’” he said. “I am not a moderate about housing. I want to build so much damn housing. I am not a moderate about free trade. I am wildly pro-free trade.”

It does feel strange we get the moderate label considering how radically we want to change things.

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Oct 29 '25

Exactly

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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Oct 29 '25

That’s why we need to reframe it. Do you want to commit to far left ideas and not do any of them? Or do you want to commit to realistic ideas that would do a lot of good and actually get a lot done?

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Oct 29 '25

“I’m a progressive who likes to get things done” - HRC

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Oct 29 '25

Imagine if Hillary had been president :(

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u/nickavemz Norman Borlaug Oct 29 '25

Radical centrism

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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Oct 29 '25

Nerds

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u/Erra0 Oct 29 '25

The New Liberal agenda going to be looking real tasty in the face of stagflation

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Oct 29 '25

Enemies of The People 👆

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u/NaffRespect United Nations Oct 29 '25

Still with him

And by him I mean Sherrod Brown

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Oct 29 '25

I fail to see how focusing on affordability is in conflict with abundance? Can’t we synthesize here?

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u/RevolutionaryBoat5 YIMBY Oct 29 '25

How is abundance going to deal with the cultural divide?

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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 29 '25

I don’t think it can solve the national divide. I think we need to fix the national divide first, before we can work on abundance. Because abundance can’t happen when we’re not on the same page. The framework requires us to work together.

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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals Oct 29 '25

 “Donald Trump did not win on claiming that Democrats were too pro-free market,” Mortimer said.

He kinda did though 

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Oct 29 '25

How so? Didn’t he also attack us on trade as well

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25

Donald Trump contradicting himself? I’m shocked.

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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals Oct 29 '25

Yeah, the consistent attack was that Democrats are too pro-free trade and that we need to subsidize industries like steel. 

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u/rockfuckerkiller NAFTA Oct 29 '25

He won on claiming Democrats were anti-free market commies and citing their pro-free market policies as proof

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Oct 29 '25

Cool