Interestingly, now that neoliberal is being used as a slur, there's a rising movement reclaiming the term and offering policies that solve a lot of the issues earlier neoliberals went wrong with. Here's one site: https://neoliberalproject.org Also see: https://niskanencenter.org My interactions with these folks have found them very reasonable. They're kind of like reformed libertarians who've learned that we need soc…
Even with a growing number of Democrats willing to identify as socialists (or even leftists) rather than liberals... I haven't yet made the acquaintance of one that doesn't believe in the wide power of a market economy. There's just lots that also believe there are some areas where markets are sub-optimal to wrong because (a) a commons is more efficient and/or (b) it's difficult to impossible to line up incentives co…
A lot of ideas on the Left have government paying for and executing public services (single pay healthcare, etc.), which can work some times, but can be subject to lack of accountability and poor efficiency.
These next-gen neoliberals are more likely to recommend public-private partnerships of various kinds where the government is paying / overseeing the execution by competitive private entities.