Other way around: the ideology forms and defines itself around the class-interest of white-collar, highly-educated professionals.
>For Frank, the central defining tendency of the modern Democratic Party is its domination by “professionals,” the highly-credentialed, data-driven Best and Brightest that Obama stuffed his cabinet with.
I can understand having a different criteria for selection, but that doesn't seem to be the message. They can't really want willfully ignorant, under-performing, yet popular.
Please read the book. You want the best and brightest writing the policies, but you need them working on behalf of the working-class in general, through an exercise of broadly-based working-class power inside the party. Otherwise, you just get what we have, which is the best and brightest writing policies that favor the best and brightest above everyone else.