The Cruelty is the Point
And it's something I think about a lot.
Adam Serwer, a man much smarter than myself, published an article in The Atlantic back in October 2018 that surmised Trumpism in a way I had never thought about. Entitled “The Cruelty is the Point,” Serwer tied the ethos of the Republican Right all the way back to white lynch mobs that reveled in torturing and mur…