The contemporary Democratic coalition is internally contradictory and capitalist-dominated at its top

Evidence

On the other side stands a broad-tent Democratic Party which seems to have redefined the very notion of an “inter-class” coalition. Sociologically, the DNC now houses urban professionals, left-liberal activists, civil rights veterans, intelligence operatives, and every faction of American capital from Palo Alto “progressives” to Wall Street haute finance. A visitor to the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago noted that it now acts as the party of labor and of capital; the party of debtors and of bankers; the party that mocks the Ivy League but is largely run by Ivy Leaguers; the party of anti-monopolists and of Silicon Valley; the party for immigrants and for border security; the party of insiders and of the marginalized; the party of the football team and of the sorority; the party of family and of freedom; the party of ceasefires and of the war machine; the party that xiopposes fascism but abets a genocide. That even-handedness needs correction, though: bankers and warmongers predominate in Democrat ruling circles, the indebted and the marginalized among its rank and file. Perhaps the nearest comparison would be an inverted Peronist developmental bloc, with the industrial proletariat left out and finance capital firmly in the saddle over its manufacturing counterpart. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 9

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general literature on hollowed-out mass parties and the class composition question the reader is tracking through Jäger’s argument.