Welcome back to this Porada, where we take just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech, business, and politics.

I'm Dan Permac. So this is our final new episode of 2019 and of the decade. So we're going to do things a little bit differently.

One minute on each of the past 10 years.

And I'm pleased to be joined on this rapid retrospective by Axios co-founder Mike Allen.

I've been practicing my fast talking. Fantastic. So let's do this. And let's start in 2010. And the topic here is the Arab Spring when social media first proved its ability to enable

large-scale political movements.

And for those who don't remember, the first viral moment kind of was tragic.

A 26-year-old Tunisian man set himself on fire in front of a government building, but

it set off a wave of democracy protests captured on cell phone cameras and was distributed

through social media.

So Mike, today, we see often

social media as a thorn in the side of democracy. But at the top of the decade, it seemed like

the thing that was going to enable democracy. It sure was. And it was a start of the decade's

youth quake as well. These were largely younger Arabs, including that 20-something Tunisian fruit seller. And we've

seen quite an arc because at the end of the decade, we, of course, have Greta Toonberg, and we have,

once again, unrest in Arab countries. So let's go to 2011. And the big thing here, to me at least,

was Occupy Wall Street, or the beginning of Occupy Wall Street. And at the time,

it seemed like it was kind of this big pushback, obviously, against what happened in the financial

crisis and a lot of yelling at bank CEOs. But arguably, it also planted the seeds for Bernie Sanders

in 2016. And what we're seeing today with both Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and kind of this

growing push among

younger Americans towards socialism. You're right. Capitalism rethought, something that we could not

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