How should we understand the relationship between populism and plutocracy? Can anti-edit politics flourish while economic inequality remains intact or deepens?

This has been, and one of the important ways that Trump 1 is different from Trump 2 is that While Trump has been in office for basically separate reasons, the economic inequality is a half century long story, but the tech elite wealth has absolutely ballooned.

And with the rise first of social media, then of AI, we now have a very, very, very, very elite stratum that has basically made its peace with Trumpism.

Now, an important part of that is their old fashioned labor rebellion and Silicon Valley workers tried in the 2010s to unionize.

They are worried about their own working conditions.

They're worried about the products that their companies are making.

They're worried about racism and sexism.

If anti-Trump constitutionalism is insufficient and progressive policy cannot substitute for organization, what would a durable democratic alternative require? Can the party defend liberal democratic institutions, rebuild working class ties, accommodate ideological heterodoxy, and harness democratic socialist energy without fragmenting?