What has happened to the idea that the American people are the ones in charge of their own country?
According to longtime cable news personality Lou Dobbs, American populism has been replaced by a network of elites in government and business.
Dobbs wrote about it in his 2007 book Independents Day. I met him that November, just about a year before the 2008 election – and Dobbs spared neither side his criticism.
So here now, from 2007, Lou Dobbs.
Lou Dobbs died this past July. He was 78.