Neoliberalism and neoconservativism are not two sides of the same coin. They’re wholly different things. Neoliberal policies are not liberal policies. It’s a 20

Neoliberalism and neoconservativism are not two sides of the same coin. They’re wholly different things. Neoliberal policies are not liberal policies. It’s a 20th-century refreshing of 19th-century philosophy of the state’s role in economic affairs—called liberalism—which is engaged with from the right and left, attempting to push ideas on what the right balance is, while few are actually questioning liberalism itself. Neoconservativism is a primarily US right-wing dominated foreign policy stance that focuses on active use of the military and intervention worldwide to protect US hegemony and world power. Neoliberalism is taken for granted within neoconservativism, and isn’t questioned or engaged by it. tl;dr — neoliberal and neoconservative are on totally different planes of existence in the world of political philosophy and policy; neoliberal doesn’t mean “new-style liberal (left-leaning) ideas”; neoconservativism is an American right-wing policy framework, it does not mean “conservative”, and it doesn’t engage the same arena of thought as neoliberalism does.