I see it as the neoliberal revolution has failed to deliver and it's apologists are grasping at straws to avoid staring down the damage they have done to the bulk humanity. They'll also say things like well it was bad for people living the Midwest but look at all the Chinese lifted out of poverty. Ignoring that China was too large and coherent to beat into submission like smaller countries were. And thus they didn't inflict those policies on their people.