Yes. I particularly appreciate the term "managerial class". This is a useful way of conceiving what has happened. This isn't just about "Trump" or "Biden" or "Pelosi", etc, etc. This is about class dynamics, with the classes looking slightly different than what Marx proposed, but firm "classes" nonetheless. The group of people (numbering in the tens of millions) who were told over and over again at our college graduations "You are the leaders of tomorrow!" also received massive social conditioning during our time learning to "run things". The majority of these people adopt the dominant set of beliefs - the worldview - from that environment and they are convinced this is how the world must work. Their beliefs are reinforced daily through news intake and other propaganda channels, and they are unwilling to compromise on any of it. I've said many times this is the same part of the brain that used to be occupied with religious dogma. Now it's what we can call "intellectual dogma", but it's the same defining the world, which very much includes a moral component. These are not just ideas; they're ideas reinforced by deep feelings of moral superiority. This is why it's so ironic how much so many of them hate Christianity, when they themselves represent the next iteration of the same phenomenon they so firmly reject from its history.

This group is now in charge. And they feel quite justified treating anyone who disagrees with their moral stance in the way that heretics have always been treated. When any group so morally rigid gains the political power to enforce their worldview - this has happened countless times throughout history - their behavior is that of a mob. The most organized mob, to be sure, but a mob nonetheless. Mobs are not rational, they are not peaceful, and they hunt down and destroy any perceived "threat" with heartless cruelty.