I think these three books offer a solid framework for providing an answer to your question: 1) The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert Reich [0] -

I think these three books offer a solid framework for providing an answer to your question: 1) The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert Reich [0] - Reich drops the buzzword neoliberalism in favor of the word power. I like that as neoliberalism is a terrible phrase for the concept it describes, but make no mistake, it's the insidious, invisible nature of neoliberalism that put our country in a position where neither party served the people well. That is what Reich describes here. 2) The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News-and Divided a Country by Gabriel Sherman [1] - There is also a Showtime miniseries based on the book you could watch. Pair with the movie Bombshell 3) Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer [2] [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52118381-the-system https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52118381-the-system [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15981705-the-loudest-voice-in-the-room https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15981705-the-loudest-voi... [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money