Neoliberals really love to talk about how much they support the social safety net as a general concept while opposing any expansion of the welfare state. It’s really weird. Like, they ostensibly believe everything that social democrats believe, but if you try to call them social democrats they’ll correct you, and if you tell them they clearly don’t support those policies, they will also correct you.

It’s exactly what you’d expect from such a poorly-defined and incoherent belief system, but it’s still bewildering.