[icegreentea2]

I don't think the poster was saying that Orban wasn't bad, just that Cato saying something about it isn't particularly signifying.

Also... neoliberalism is basically what you think of when you think "right-wing billionaire word salad" from like 6 years ago. Neoliberalism is the the idea of elevating "the market" to the absolute primacy of... everything. Neoliberalism is coined relative to the traditional "liberalism", specifically the part of traditional liberalism that supported free trade and marketization.

The Cato Institute was literally founded by one of the Koch brothers, and has been staunchly neoliberal/libertarian. It stands in opposition to many of the policies of the current far-right/ex-right movement, because those policies call for a fusion of market and government that actually is fundamentally incompatible with neoliberalism. Furthermore, we should be aware that the populist surge that is at least partly powering this surge is itself a reaction to the conditions that neoliberalism (and institutional capture) has created.

[consumer451]

Yes, and the Overton Window has moved so far to the far-right, that my largely progressive ass is agreeing with Cato in this case. Yet, here we are, due to the content of TFA being based on fact.