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In a nutshell Neoliberalism means policies promoting privatization, fiscal austerity, deregulation, and free trade. Post Reagan-era Democrats are fully committed to free trade, arguably more committed to fiscal austerity than Republicans (who use it as an excuse to cut things they don't like but rack up huge deficits on other spending), and have been generally moderate on privatization (FasTracks being a good example). Only on deregulation do party machine Democrats really differ.

Anyway, if folks want to quibble over the semantics, I'll cede that I used the word a bit lazily. Regardless, the Democrats' acceptance of free trade and willingness to compromise on domestic/social spending are part of the economically conservative but socially liberal formula the party adopted to survive Reagan, are at least debatably neoliberal tendencies, and clearly are part of the populist unhappiness with them. The rising stars of the party care less about balanced budgets and trade deficits than the Clintons did.