The Neo-liberal Consensus

KMO welcomes Gaius Publius to the C-Realm Podcast to discuss the history of neo-liberalism and the importance of the two protest candidates who represent the public's frustration with the decades-long project of advancing a billionaire-controlled, predatory, global system of corporate capitalism. The establishment candidates strive to manage expectations for an inevitable decline in living standards and political responsiveness, but the electorate are done with that, says Gaius. All that remains to be seen is whether the rejection of the neo-liberal consensus will come from the left, the right, or whether the Millennials, and others who refuse to have their expectations managed down to something the neo-liberal candidates consider "reasonable" or "realistic," abandon the frame of electoral politics all together and continue the struggle by other means.   The Guardian article by Thomas Frank mentioned in the episode can be found here: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/donald-trump-why-americans-support