Socialists have created quite an alliance of most everyone across the political spectrum in recent broadsides against “neoliberalism.” The socialist Left’s problem with Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party is that they are “neoliberals” – that is, that they believe in at least some version of markets and capitalism and do not actively pursue government takeover of all industry.

New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait, one of those center-left writers who has been derided as a neoliberal by the socialist-left, wrote of this phenomenon and his perception of its uselessness: