Now I will address the moronic parts of Lance Mannion’s piece, specifically those about neoliberalism.

During the Clinton campaign because she was and is in fact a staunch neoliberal, it became fashionable among the really-Republican but nominally-Democratic set to claim that that neoliberalism doesn’t exist, and if it does exist, it’s used incorrectly by anyone who ever says it (no true Scotsman), and to the extent that it does exist, it’s actually good except when it isn’t.

Well, economists, sociologists and political scientists recognize that neoliberalism is a pretty defined and identifiable ideology, so what’s the deal with these assclowns?

“Go, team, go!” mainly is what’s wrong.

Anyway, it’d be really convenient if one of the dominant forces of our time that has caused such great harm had no appellation, no way to call it out, no entry on a dichotomous key, no method of pointing at it definitively. It’s an Orwellian move done for crass aims that was perpetuated mainly in support of a poor candidate in a terrible election.

As the Wikipedia article itself points out, the entire goal of delegitimizing the term “neoliberal” is to remove its power as an analytical frame. Effectively censoring the word is designed to prevent thought about it, thus strengthening it. Amazing how many people get cognitively conned and cheer it on as it’s happening.

Again: good job, folks. You really showed us all.

Mainly showed us how debilitatingly shit-for-brains you are.

This election will surely go down in history as the one where not only did we lose our democracy, but demonstrated that we didn’t deserve it in the first place.