From Thurber finalist and former superstar Period columnist Joel Stein comes a ‘brilliant exploration’ (Walter Isaacson) of America’s political lifestyle war and a hilarious contact to arms for the top notch.

‘I can think about no one more suitable for defend elitism than Stein, a funny guy with hands as sensitive as a baby filled with soft-boiled eggs.’–Jimmy Kimmel, host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The night time Donald Trump won the presidency, our author Joel Stein, Thurber Prize finalist and former staff writer for Period about In Protection of Elitism: Why I’m Better Than You and You are MUCH BETTER THAN SOMEBODY WHO Didn’t Buy This Book Mag, instantly knew why. The main reason wasn’t economic anxiety or racism. It was that he was anti-elitist. Hillary Clinton symbolized Wall Street, academics, policy documents, Davos, international treaties and the people who think they’re much better than you. People like Joel Stein. Trump represented something far more appealing, that was defeating up people like Joel Stein.

Within a full-throated protection of academia, the mainstream press, medium-rare steak, and civility, Joel Stein battles against populism. He fears a new tribal elite is normally coming to change him, one that will fend off expertise of all kinds and send out the united states hurtling backward to a time of wars, economic stagnation as well as the well-done steaks doused with ketchup that Trump eats.

To find out how this change happened and what can be done, Stein spends a week in Roberts Region, Texas, which acquired the best percentage of Trump voters in the country. He would go to the home of Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams; matches people who create fake news; and finds the brand new elitist companies merging both best and still left to combat the populists. Even while using the largest words he understands.