For the last eight years, Silicon Valley’s recent MAGA converts have convinced themselves that the civil service and the intelligentsia it represents [the cultural elites] are the real elite that runs America, first as the Deep State undermining Trump in his first term, then in the actual seat of power under Biden. Now they [tech/financial elites] have their chance to bring the dominated faction [cultural elites] to heel. And as befits their class, they are exacting their revenge with the swagger of a corporate raider, wielding spreadsheets as weapons and breaking the enemy’s will to resist with the shock and awe of mass layoffs.
It’s a war on the elite, by the elite. But that doesn’t mean the working class has no stake in it. When even the worst of parents divorce, the fallout is still suffered by the children.
From "DOGE as Class War", in Compact by Leighton Woodhouse
So who will emerge to speak for the children? Is the Left really so stupid as to surrender it to reactionary Bannonism?
This is essay points out that it is structurally impossible for the Left's cultural elites to win against the Right's financial elites, so they better figure something out fast if they're really serious about resisting the coming reactionary oligarchy. They need people power, and right now the people really, really don’t like them, and for good reason.