Postindustrial coastal elites monopolized economic, social, cultural, and political capital

Evidence

These shifts not only left swaths of the country behind economically but also upended traditional gender dynamics. As elucidated in journalist Hanna Rosin’s provocative essay “The End of Men,” the nature of postindustrial work increasingly favored women. Meanwhile, pop culture and mainstream media leaned decisively liberal, portraying empathetic, gym-toned liberals as heroes and their opponents as irredeemable, overweight bigots. By the Obama years, wealthy coastal liberals controlled the status quadfecta—economic, social, cultural, and political capital. For Trump and his supporters, the campaign promised a rebalancing, a revenge on the elites who dominated modern American life. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 433

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘status quadfecta’ — economic, social, cultural, political capital — echoes Bourdieu’s capital typology and connects to the reader’s frame on status dynamics in the omnivore monoculture thesis. — connects to: California’s postindustrial growth concentrated gains among entrepreneurs and asset owners — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 473