Michael Lind’s new book argues that ‘technocratic neoliberalism’ cut itself off from white working-class heartlands and opened the door to rightwing populism Michael Lind, the author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite , has a theory. Today’s political villain, he argues, is a phenomenon he calls “technocratic neoliberalism” – a geographically clustered, managerial or metropolitan, university-educated elite who have in large part won control of the US political, economic and cultural life. The failure of this group to comprehend its upper hand over sparsely populated, white working-class heartlands, and the group’s subsequent refusal to compromise on differences of approach, is a failure that threatens democracy and creates a vacuum for populist demagogues like Donald Trump to fill, Lind argues. Continue reading...