1) In 2012, in the midst of the Obama/Romney campaign I published a book called Twilight of the Elites. https://t.co/LFPutDnrAa— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 5, 2016
2) The book argued that America had undergone an extended period of elite failure, from Iraq to Katrina to the financial crisis.— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 5, 2016
3) And that the sustained elite failure along with diminishing prospects for great majority of workers had produced a Crisis of Authority— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 5, 2016
4) That Crisis of Authority could be found in polling that found Americans with the lowest levels of trust in their institutions...ever— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 5, 2016
5) I argued that there were different reactions to this chasm of distrust that had grown up. Institutionalists, who thought the distrust was— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 5, 2016
6) itself the problem, and Insurrectionists who believed fundamentally the problem was born of an incompetent, corrupt elite.— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 5, 2016
7) I also argued that this kind of crisis of authority opened up new possibilities for genuine reform and re-democraticization, but also— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 5, 2016
8) it opened up the possibility of a move towards much more authoritarian politics; if the elite are bankrupt and corrupt, a strongman— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 5, 2016
9) will look, to many, like an attractive alternative.— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 5, 2016
Basically Donald Trump is every argument in that book made real.
10) And since were all reflecting on our predictions, I thought I'd take this opportunity to say as many as I get wrong,this one I got right— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 5, 2016