turn sth. on its head困难

In other words, at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head, frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing, one obvious solution is staring us in the face.

换句话说，在工人阶级因曾经代表美国的机遇正在消失而沮丧、并在政治上把这个国家搅得天翻地覆之际，一个显而易见的解决办法就摆在我们面前。

This was the biographical tradition which Niccolò Machiavelli turned on its head.

而尼科洛·马基雅维利彻底颠覆了这一传记传统。