For those who can’t get enough of the left-neoliberalism debate: Mike Konczal has an excellent and useful post at Rortybomb that takes a stab at delineating just what makes US left-neoliberism neoliberal, at a policy level.

The short version:

1. subsidizing private providers instead of public provision.

2. “pity-charity liberalism” versus welfare universalism

3. the fetish for competition

4. the focus on “egalitarian” supply-side measures, instead of demand