The problem with arguing that neoliberals left American workers behind is that it’s mostly untrue.

Title is exactly per the article, but the article itself is mostly about US economics post-WWII, focusing on post-NAFTA (very little in the article is actually about Obama)

Exec summary: MAGA have it mostly backwards.

top marginal tax rates were significantly higher in 2016 than in 1992. Federal spending on social programs went up, not down. […] the economy grew more regulated, not less. U.S. tariff rates were basically stagnant.

American manufacturing jobs have declined mostly for the same reason American farming jobs have declined. We’re more productive, able to make more stuff with fewer workers. That’s not primarily a story about neoliberalism or globalization; it’s progress.