I think it's pretty clear that the Trump years consolidated a kind of "national-liberal" tendency, which is especially prevalent in the mainstream press corps, segments of academia, and, yes, swaths of the PMC

One way to think about the ideological contours of this tendency is to see it concerned principally with the defense of the US as multicultural empire from critics on both the right and the left

"National liberals" combine belief in the merits of diversity, multiculturalism with belief in American exceptionalism, celebration of US global power, valorization of its symbols, armed forces, etc

The incoming Biden administration exemplifies this tendency. It's positioned as opposed (rightly) to the white-nationalist right. But it is also fiercely opposed to the internationalist left, hostile to criticism of US empire or the insufficiencies of corporate diversity efforts.

I think this matters because a lot of writers/commentators have internalized a certain right-wing critique that the problem with the US elite is that it's too globalist. Yet if you look at what elites in media, business, tech actually believe, strong US nationalism is the norm