Copyright © 2017 Naomi Klein Published in 2017 in the United States by Haymarket Books, and simultaneously in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, and in Great Britain by Allen Lane, a division of the Random House Group Limited. Haymarket Books P.O. Box 180165, Chicago, IL 60618 www.haymarketbooks.org All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN 978-1-60846-890-4 eBook ISBN 978-1-60846-891-1 This book was published with the generous support of Lannan Foundation and the Wallace Action Fund. Distributed in the United States by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, www.cbsd.com. Book design by CS Richardson Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. For my mother, Bonnie Sherr Klein, who teaches me more about shock resilience every day. I’m not looking to overthrow the American government, the corporate state already has. —JOHN TRUDELL Santee Dakota activist, artist, and poet (1946–2015) CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph INTRODUCTION PART I | HOW WE GOT HERE: Rise of the Superbrands 1. How Trump Won by Becoming the Ultimate Brand 2. The First Family of Brands 3. The Mar-a-Lago Hunger Games PART II | WHERE WE ARE NOW: Climate of Inequality 4. The Climate Clock Strikes Midnight 5. The Grabber-in-Chief 6. Politics Hates a Vacuum 7. Learn to Love Economic Populism PART III | HOW IT COULD GET WORSE: The Shocks to
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