The new president marks the end of the old civic nationalist America and the beginning of the new managerial state. Competitive elections and open debate have been swept away in favor of ceremonial elections and speech codes. The managerial class has formally seized control of the country.

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The professional-managerial class has been around for some time, but has been increasing in power in the latest decades and has now assumed full control. They have no pity on us and will use all of their might to destroy us utterly. They're the Inner Party that Orwell wrote about in 1984, interested in power for its own sake.

"[The managerial class] are not managers in the narrow sense, but scientists, technicians, teachers, journalists, broadcasters, bureaucrats, professional politicians: in general, middling people who feel themselves cramped by a system that is still partly aristocratic, and are hungry for more power and more prestige. These people look towards the USSR and see in it, or think they see, a system which eliminates the upper class, keeps the working class in its place, and hands unlimited power to people very similar to themselves. It was only after the Soviet régime became unmistakably totalitarian that English intellectuals, in large numbers, began to show an interest in it."

-- George Orwell, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/burnham/english/e_burnh.html