Introduction : the first shall be first -- Servile disobedience -- The architecture of inequality -- Home of the whopper -- At your leisure -- Dead end on shakin' street -- Academy fight song -- A matter of degrees -- Course corrections -- Beltway trifecta -- The animatronic presidency -- Bully pulpit -- The powers that were -- Why millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump -- Rendezvous with oblivion -- How the Democrats can win again -- Main Street USA.