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Depends on what you mean by 'Trump style populism' or 'to stay.' My inclination is to say no.
My basis of 'no' is that much of Trump's style is not simply anti-establishment, but a good degree of anti-PMC-ness due to the PMC disregarding/rejecting other groups even as the PMC has become significantly synonymous with the Democratic Party. The PMC class was able to dominate the Democratic party thanks to the rise of the Obama coalition and its sustainment through Hillary, Biden, and Harris.
The last two in particular have substantially discredited that approach, not least because the PMC claim-to-authority is 'we are effective' and they very clearly were not effective, or even sufficient to win. Political parties are built to win, and so while it will take time I suspect the Democratic party will move into a more populist position itself... but that position won't be Trump-style populism, and by departing from PMC-dominance, the Trump-style populism will also fade.
I suspect (though future events may change this) that Trump winning both the electoral and the popular vote in 2024 will contribute to Trump-style populism fading from the Republican party, transitioning into something milder (and thus different). 2016 was characterized as a dissident hand grenade at the political elite, but 2020's covid-irregularities and election-fortifications and such didn't convince the Trump electorate they lost so much as that they were denied. Had Trump lost last night I think a good deal of that sentiment would have survived- updating to things like politically motivated prosecutions and Democratic party coups and whatever late-night ballot drops changing that- but by winning, the Trump electorate could achieve a catharsis from 2020 and in turn accept a Trump departure in 2028 because such a departure would be natural, as opposed to imposed on political pretense.
Things could still bring that back- a partisan-motivated assassination, a post-2026 impeachment/removal from the presidency, post-2028 pursuit for revenge by resurgent Democrats- but if Trump concludes his term in 2028 (or at least dies for not-blamed-on-Democrat reasons) and then retires to a reliably red states for the rest of his life, I don't see what follows being Trump-style populism.
I keep seeing this PMC acronym, and I must've missed when it entered common parlance. Could someone please enlighten me? My search engine was no help.
As the others note, professional-managerial class.
It was originally an attempt to launder Marxism for the service economy. They don’t own the capital, but also aren’t big on the class interests of the proles.
Dean’s usage is somewhere between that and the category of technocrats.
Today, I’d say it’s mostly seen as a sneering shorthand for whichever parts of the middle class don’t agree with one’s politics. Kroger-brand coastal elites.
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PMC = Professional Managerial Class
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%E2%80%93managerial_class
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/on-the-origins-of-the-professional-managerial-class-an-interview-with-barbara-ehrenreich/
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Professional Managerial Class.
Vaguely meaning college-educated specialists, particularly those in positions of authority over others (direct management or as authority figures deserving deference like Doctors) who are often highly certified and educated, but deal more with managing people or ideas than actual building of things or manual work.
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