Burn It Down: What the Polls Say Young Americans Really Want - Paperback

by Rich Baris (Author), Joshua Lisec (Author), Gabe Guidarini (Foreword by)

The data-backed map to America's next political era.

Most people think they know what time it is in America--a return to Constitutional conservative principles. Wrong. The clock is about to run out--and the people still arguing over yesterday's headlines are going to get blindsided.

Big Data Poll has exclusive data from decades of trend-tracking and uncomfortable question-asking, and it all points in the same direction: We've hit a civilizational shake-up. Young people believe that institutions are hollow and systems are rigged. The old order feeds itself first and calls it governance while citizens get shafted. The youth have noticed, and they can't take it anymore.

Imminent systemic collapse feels unprecedented only if you've never studied history. There's a pattern for eras like this--a template. Once you recognize it, you can't unsee what comes next.

Meanwhile, naïve commentators repeat the claim that Generation Z--the "zoomers"--are simply "more conservative" than previous cohorts. All polling disagrees. Most Americans have no clue how radical, reactionary, and revolutionary this next generation already is. A wave of disaffected and disillusioned are rising into prominence and power, and they don't want to reform the system; they want to burn it down. What are we going to do about it?

Rich Baris, director of Big Data Poll, and New York Times bestselling author Joshua Lisec forewarn us of widespread civil revolt, Constitutional crisis, and--as trendlines predict--either Neo-Bolshevism or the rise of an American Empire. Read this book to understand how America decides.

Author Biography

Rich Baris is the director of Big Data Poll and host of Inside the Numbers with the People's Pundit. He is the only national and state pollster to correctly forecast Donald J. Trump would win the 2016 presidential election with 306 electoral votes and was recognized again as the most accurate national pollster of 2024, with his state polling again projecting a victory for the returning president with 312 electoral votes. He has been widely cited as the leading independent pollster in the Trump era to identify key demographic trends and cutting-edge methodologies to improve industry standards and performance.

Baris and his political analysis frequently appear on RealClearPolitics, Fox News, Newsmax, The Hill/Decision Desk HQ, Real America's Voice, and many other media outlets. His work has been featured and widely praised for its radical transparency and accuracy by others such as Tucker Carlson, the New York Post, and Steve Bannon. The People's Pundit also directed and conducted the Epoch Times poll in 2020. That same year, he founded the Public Polling Project, the first and only ongoing survey in the United States to be crowdfunded.

Joshua Lisec writes books of consequence. He is author alongside Jack Posobiec of The New York Times bestseller Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) and the Newsmax bestseller Bulletproof: The Truth About the Assassination Attempts on Donald Trump, endorsed by Vice President JD Vance and President Donald J. Trump, respectively.

Lisec is best known for his literary collaborations with controversial public figures, capturing their authentic voice and conveying the whole story. He is a New York Times, number one Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestselling coauthor and has ghostwritten more than 110 nonfiction books on politics, business, and more that have been translated into a dozen languages. He has been featured in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Newsweek, The Observer, Forbes, BBC, TEDx, and TMZ. He is the world's only certified ghostwriter and certified hypnotist.

Follow Joshua on X @joshualisec and at www.lisecghostwriting.com.