"Trump paid plenty of lip service to working-class Americans, but as president-elect, he's moved quickly to stack his administration with billionaires that share his vision of a rigged economy that only works for people like them."
The state more broadly and the executive specifically is a reflection of society (with some exceptions); if society does not value freedom (in the true sense, not the polemical sense), you are going to get leaders who oppose democracy.
What does neoliberal have to do with this? If anything, non-liberal administrations are much more likely to service a small group of insiders and generally engage in brutal excesses.
The state more broadly and the executive specifically is a reflection of society (with some exceptions); if society does not value freedom (in the true sense, not the polemical sense), you are going to get leaders who oppose democracy.
What does neoliberal have to do with this? If anything, non-liberal administrations are much more likely to service a small group of insiders and generally engage in brutal excesses.