GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Joel Kotkin: Watch Out! Here Come the ‘Woke’ Tech Oligarchs.
The buyout of mainstream progressivism has changed its nature. Big donor-driven candidates—who still dominate the party’s leadership ranks, even as small-donor powered insurgents like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez test that arrangement, at least in low-turnout elections—are less concerned with the fate of auto or communication workers than they are with issues of environmental regulation, identity, and culture.
Why should a small group of people enjoy such unaccountable power? Time for some trustbusting?