Ruy Teixeira has been writing about changes remodeling the Democrat Party, his perspective is bottom-up. He complains about the Democrats abandoning the working classes' economic interests while becoming too avant garde socially for their somewhat conservative tastes. We have linked to several of his weekly columns.
Now Joel Kotkin, another prolific author, writes about CA Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is a scion of old CA money, including the Getty family. Newsom is often talked about as an alternative to Joe Biden should old age elbow Biden out of the presidential race one way or another.
In focusing on Newsom, Kotkin looks at the same changes Teixeira writes about, only from the top down. He concludes:
Whether under Newsom, Harris, or some similarly culturally-aligned friend to the tech elite, gentry progressivism seems destined to dominate the Democratic Party, serving the interests of the upper classes while winning over the poor with redistributed wealth.
Think of Newsom, his family and extremely wealthy supporters as being like the plantation owners in the old South. In this 'dramatization' the blue collar workers are the slaves, and the public employees are the overseer class, being neither slave nor owner.
In a nutshell, that scenario is Kotkin's view of where CA is headed and where the Democrats want to take the rest of the country. Let's make sure they don't succeed in bring about a "new feudalism." Worse luck, I don't have a forelock to tug.
