Liberalism Vs Neoliberalism Essay

With the United States’ most recent election for president just behind us, we can see what it means in relation to neoliberalism. Trump’s election into office is ultimately a reflection of the failure of neoliberalism; while the Democrats in the past have elected neoliberals into office, with the development of the economy and how the common worker has been alienated, Americans have turned their back to the neoliberal path that they were following in the hope for a change.
We need to know what liberalism is so we can understand what neoliberalism is; I will use Folcault and Brown to define neoliberalism, as the two are similar. According to Wendy Brown, liberalism has the government, and outside of it is economy, there are distinct boundaries; and neoliberalism has the government and economy, however the boundaries are blurred. Neoliberalism takes ideas about how the free market works and applies them to non-market situations. Neoliberals have three main policies,
However, when I finished reading them, and as I look back at them, I can see that they can be arguing for the same point. It was apparent that they argued from emotion, at least at first, but as they continued, they used the same points, and to a similar conclusion. Because the Democratic party embraced neoliberalism so much and because of the loss of trust between the working class and Clinton Trump won the election. Because the working class’s trust in Clinton declined, they looked for an alternate solution, for someone who would fight for them. Their money no longer was supporting their interests with Clinton, so they took to someone who would not take their money and ignore them. It can be because of neoliberalism and its failure that Trump has been elected, or even because they are using a different definition of neoliberalism which may be possible because there is no set definition that everyone is