Adam Serwer is a staff writer at The Atlantic, focused on politics, race, and justice. Like many Americans, I have spent much of the last five years reeling as we saw the kind of President we had and the America we were becoming. I admit I waver between being so freaked out by the news I can’t bear it and feeling like I HAVE to watch/listen/read, because i HAVE to know! We have an obligation to try to hold on to the fragile democracy, and to avoid the authoritarian death spiral we often seem to be living through.
The Cruelty Is The Point is a collection of Serwer’s essays that reveal his view that the Trump Presidency is not “an aberration but as an outgrowth of the inequalities the United States was founded on.”
The author wants to show what was behind the ascent of such a man to the Presidency. He also pushes his readers to see that even the media was blindsided by it all. Highly readable, highly recommended. Five stars, and thanks to Random House One World and NetGalley for providing a copy in return for an honest review. Must reading, if you can bear it. (Yes, I admit it. I am most definitely NOT a fan!)