As a recipe for combating the rise of extremism, this combination of free markets and human rights has not been a great success. Instead, right wing movements, overtly racist parties and authoritarian leaders have come to power by publicly disparaging the 'globalist' agenda, even as many of them have embraced the austerity politics and attacks on welfare (and racialised welfare recipients) that have defined the neoliberal consensus for decades. While neoliberalism survived the Global Financial Crisis largely 'unscathed', as Philip Mirowsi notes, it has not survived entirely unchanged. Today, the explicit appeals to 'Western civilisation' and the racialised fear of 'the masses' that defined early neoliberalism are resurgent, and appeals to humanitarianism are increasingly replaced by xenophobic and exclusionary attempts 'to beat people into submission' in order to protect the 'smooth operation of the market economy'.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 451