From The Magazine: Whereas democratic socialists might put a rose emoji in their Twitter bios and advocate for Medicare-for-all, neoliberals identify themselves with a globe emoji and support free trade, liberalized immigration and the “YIMBY” movement.
But one night last month, over Blue Moons at a downtown D.C. pub, I talked with a group of millennial and Gen Z political wonks who are proud to call themselves neoliberals — embracing the term as a rebuke to populists of the left and right.
Whereas democratic socialists might put a red rose emoji in their Twitter bios and advocate for Medicare-for-all, these neoliberals often identify themselves with a blue globe emoji — since they’re proud to reclaim “globalism” from its detractors — and support free trade, liberalized immigration and the rising “YIMBY” movement, which favors dense, more affordable housing in cities.
“Bernie Sanders had run in the primary against Hillary Clinton and, for the first time in a while, the Democratic Party had been divided between the left and the center-left,” recalls Colin Mortimer, the 25-year-old director of the Center for New Liberalism, who was a college student at the time. “It wasn’t like there were rational Republicans to ally with — Donald Trump had won the presidency. People on the center-left felt adrift and were looking to coalesce and create community.
Neoliberals are well aware that their centrist politics aren’t for everyone. Markose Butler, the Center for New Liberalism’s 30-year-old organizing director, told me his views put him at odds with his classmates and teachers in college and graduate school. “It wouldn’t surprise my professors that I’m working for an openly neoliberal organization, but it might disappoint them,” he said with a smile. “I was the class conservative, even though I’m very much a Democrat.
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