"There comes a point where you either have to transact with reality or you decide, well, the established order is so corrupt that destroying it is progress," he says. "I think many people have gotten crossed over that line."
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.