Even as an opinion journalist, I try to give the facts as best as I see them, but I think in political journalism, you often get some version of "one… - Adam Serwer

most people think of cruelty as an individual problem. And it is that, but what I'm focused on in the book is cruelty as a part of American politics, specifically the way that it is used to demonize certain groups so you can justify denying people their basic rights under the Constitution and exclude them from the political process, which is substantially what the Trump project was about, both as a means to power and also as a policy agenda.

You see, when only white men are hired, it's just a question of competence and merit. But when white men are not hired, it's prejudice. Don't ever let anyone tell you conservatives don't understand systemic racism! They just think it only exists for them.

the anti-political correctness types are really just trying to enforce their own standards of acceptable discourse and are furious at their inability to do so