Class warfare between workers and elites explains Trump-era conflicts

Class warfare between workers and elites explains Trump-era conflicts
"What’s happening in America is an echo of what’s happening in democracies around the world, and it’s not happening because of Trump."
To understand events around the world today, one must think in terms of the class struggle.
This sentence sounds like something that could be written by a doctrinaire Marxist. 
But it is nonetheless true. 
Much of the current tension in America and in many other democracies is in fact a product of a class struggle. 
It’s not the kind of class struggle that Karl Marx wrote about, with workers and peasants facing off against rapacious capitalists, but it is a case of today’s ruling class facing disaffection from its working class.
...But the New Class isn’t limited to communist countries, really. 
Around the world in the postwar era, power was taken up by unelected professional and managerial elites. 
To understand what’s going on with President Donald Trump and his opposition, and in other countries as diverse as France, Hungary, Italy and Brazil, it’s important to realize that the post-World War II institutional arrangements of the Western democracies are being renegotiated, and that those democracies’ professional and managerial elites don’t like that very much, because they have done very well under those arrangements.  
And, like all elites who are doing very well, they don’t want that to change..."
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