Thread by @AdamSerwer

I am very excited to share the cover for my forthcoming book: The Cruelty Is The Point: The Past, Present and Future of Trump's America, which is coming out on June 29. You can preorder here: bit.ly/3psRSrr

I hope you'll buy a copy and encourage others to the same!

TCITP contains some of my Atlantic essays, but is mostly new material, including new pieces on the politics of police unions and the myth that European immigrants at the turn of the century came to America "the right way," among others.

A strange kind of denial greeted Trump's ascension, and a similar one is setting in after his defeat, both about what he did and represented, as though he were just an aberration, rather than a manifestation of beliefs that have plagued American democracy since the founding.

Yet the historical and ideological forces that brought Trump to the fore remain with us and will shape American politics for some time to come—you can already see this in GOP efforts to restrict the vote so that they need not be accountable to the public.

I hope this book acts as a small bulwark against the capriciousness of American public memory, which is so often distorted by those who consciously seek to warp history in order to defend injustice in the present, as we are seeing in the aftermath of Trump's loss.

Obviously pre-ordering makes a huge difference with these things, so I would truly appreciate you doing so. Also, please consider ordering from your local indies, which could really use the help. bit.ly/3psRSrr

Thank you and I can't wait to share the book with you!