[aluhut]

An AMA in a sub called "neoliberal" is hardly an indicator.

[lhnz]

Participation by elites in a group that might at one point have had negative connotations is a sign of it being rehabilitated.

[aluhut]

Participation by elites in neoliberalism was the reason why the term has a negative connotation in the first place...

[lhnz]

My point is "they don't participate if it's inherently smearing". They are careful about their public selves.

This means that they must believe it has become defendable.

[aluhut]

I understood you very well. But maybe we are not talking about the same "elites" because I have no idea how you get the idea. They didn't care about the connotation back then. Why should the negativity of it be relevant today?

I was thinking of financial elites btw.