The answer is that leftist messaging is just a thin veneer over staunchly capitalistic and globalist politics. As long as people look to "liberal" messaging from corporate America, it seems unlikely to change.
In my understanding a neo-liberal government is a fan of unblocking housing development, evidence based decision making w.r.t. pandemic responses, and police encounters. I would personally call governments in many parts of the Bay traditionally conservative as they are trying to protect what it was 50 years ago.
What does Neo-liberalism mean to you?
edits: lots of things, sorry if that confuses any responders...
I think the quintessential neo-liberal group is the Trilateral Commission [2], which many high audience mainstream media talking heads are members.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#United_States
"Free" markets will solve everything. Muh private sector. Change is inevitable, so get with the program grandpa.
That's my takeaway.
Neoliberalism is contemporarily used to refer to market-oriented reform policies such as "eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers" and reducing, especially through privatization and austerity, state influence in the economy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#:~:text=Neoliber....