Certainly one of the most insightful books about where we were politically in 2012 and where we were going. Hayes nails the problem, the cause, and the effect, but has little to offer by way of a solution. He missed the collapse of Occupy and the complete racist cooption of the Tea Party, his two primary examples of movements that could pull down elite powers, which leaves this feeling like a fairly hopeless read. Still, deeply insightful.