Reddit reviews Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

Twilight of the Elites

Tyranny of the Experts

I haven't read it myself, been meaning too, but Twilight of the Elites by Chris Hayes might interest you. Though I haven't read it from what I know of it, it might not be comforting.

That's Chris "Motherfuckin" Hayes. Smart guy. http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Elites-America-After-Meritocracy/dp/0307720462

>Or that there is very little evidence that a vote for Trump was a vote against The Establishment, and very substantial evidence to the contrary

The point of discussing a rise in populism is not to prove that all Republican voters are anti-establishment, it's to highlight new factions and rearranging political parties. Do you seriously think there hasn't been a rise of new political factions in the wake of Trump? Who the Hell cares about Clinton or Zizek? Plenty of ordinary mainstream thinkers have been writing about this topic for a while now, like this book.

>I can’t really get behind The Big Ž’s method since it so often proceeds by way of using pop culture in place of hard evidence

Uh huh. And who again is pedantically flogging the virtues of objectivity and rationality?

Laughing at 35 year olds interested in My Little Pony and philosophy is just not enough of a train wreck for me to stop and point at is all I was saying.