The bizarro shock doctrine of Covid Libertarians

The right's lazy defense of neoliberalism against the shock doctrine critique is just to cynically reverse it.

Photo credit: Michael Jolley. Cropped and licensed under Creative Commons 2.0.

Naomi Klein, in her classic The Shock Doctrine, argues that “contemporary capitalism’s core tactical nostrum” can be found in comments arch neoliberal Milton Friedman layed out long ago:

…only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change… our basic function [is] to de…