The Importance of Being Ready for the Next Big Break

"The forces that are controlling them are more willing than ever to just display their power nakedly and give up the fig leaf of democratic legitimacy," he says. "Our social atomization has reached a tipping point that can't be recovered from regardless of whether material conditions get terrible enough or how much they give up even attempting to channel our actual concerns" The only way we're gonna know is retroactively when the next big break comes how we respond to it will answer the question, writes Julian Zelizer.