I think disenchanted is the way I would describe the public's view of government. All those stories that they could solve, joblessness and economic equality have been claimed. We now see they don't know how to do any of these things. There's a disenchantment. Well, we need an elite class that is the equivalent of the scientific class when the first is in place. So it's going to be a twist and a turn because that's the way everything human ever goes.
Author Martin Gurri, Visiting Fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, talks about his book The Revolt of the Public with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Gurri argues that a digital tsunami--the increase in information that the web provides--has destabilized authority and many institutions. He talks about the amorphous nature of recent populist protest movements around the world and where we might be headed politically and culturally.