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Can one be a competent president while pushing neo liberal fuckery?
Hmm, you definitely don't know what "neoliberal" actually means. A neoliberal is more conservative than a traditional liberal. It is, in terms of American discourse, a liberal who has bought into conservative economic policies and preferences for privatization, free trade, deregulation, and austerity policies. As an international concept, neoliberalism represents those policies which are traditionally associated with conservatives in America.
Conservatives complaining about neoliberalism basically amounts to conservatives complaining about their own policies...which isn't all that surprising because conservatives (i) strongly tend to not actually know what their parties' economic policies actually are and what they entail, and (ii) tend to not care for said economic policies once they realize what they are.