Nope, neoliberalism is not what he means. Neoliberalism is about pro-banks, pro-corporate, pro-small-government economic ideas.
Wikipedia: Neoliberalism (neo-liberalism) refers primarily to the 20th century resurgence of 19th century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism.
What the author refers to is "liberals" as in "liberal studies". Political correctness, victimhood, etc mostly, but also how the same things are used by the conservative.
He does start with a 2009 example of being accused as a "communist", but the gist of his article is not about the same ideological origin of accussations, but about the emergence of this whole new climate where you can't hurt anyone's "feelings", etc.
Wikipedia: Neoliberalism (neo-liberalism) refers primarily to the 20th century resurgence of 19th century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism.
What the author refers to is "liberals" as in "liberal studies". Political correctness, victimhood, etc mostly, but also how the same things are used by the conservative.
He does start with a 2009 example of being accused as a "communist", but the gist of his article is not about the same ideological origin of accussations, but about the emergence of this whole new climate where you can't hurt anyone's "feelings", etc.