*This post is part of a series on Silicon Valley’s political endgame from the Ferenstein Wire. See all available chapters here.
The Republican party is not the only party experiencing a grassroots political coup. A new breed of capitalism-loving, urbanized liberals are demanding an entirely new role for the federal government.
With heavy support from Silicon Valley, these new tech Democrats want the government to embrace economic disruption, with more high-skilled immigrant visas, expansive trade deals, and performance-based pay that encourages charter schools to adopt the data-driven management model of a modern startup (often in opposition to teacher unions).
“The replacement of working-class whites with upscale professionals has turned the Democratic coalition into an alliance with a built-in class division,” wrote Columbia Journalism Professor and NYT Columnist, Thomas B. Edsall, on the migration of professionals from the Republican party to the Democrats. “While constituting a minority, the relatively upscale wing clearly dominates party policy and provides the majority of the activists who run campaigns, serve as delegates to the convention and have become the core of the party’s donor base.”

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