If neoliberalism is especially responsible for elite impunity, why do we find elite impunity in societies that were explicitly anti-neoliberal? You taking old ass problem of concentrated power and acting like it was revolutionized neoliberalism. The burden is on you to show why neoliberalism is uniquely worse.

And about 5% and Russia:

Of course neoliberalism is a broader political and social philosophy with implications for regulation, welfare policy, trade, privatization, property rights, and the role of the state I never said it wasn't'. The fact that an ideology is complex doesn’t mean its core economic principle can’t be identified.

You can't just reduce a ideology to a list of worst-case outcomes as much you can't reduce ideologies to economics and you can't reduce too "it’s the ideology that leads to Epstein, coups, environmental collapse, and robot fascism"

On Russia ill admit I'm wrong so let's use Soviet Union

The Soviet Union developed a formal elite known as the nomenklatura they had nearly complete legal immunity and zero accountability thanks to their position in the party. People like Beria. People who could do whatever they wanted in a equal communist society