The Resistance Is Not Coming to Save You

<excerpt> The aftermath of the 2016 election gave the publishing industry its own “Trump bump,” as a glut of hostile tomes about the new president flew off shelves in blue-state bookstores. Maybe not this time, says one D.C. literary agent specializing in political books, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid running down the business.

“I talked to a dozen editors last week to check in with them and to see what they were planning to do for political books in a Trump era. They were all exhausted at the thought of doing more anti-Trump books,” the agent said. “It’s like walking out of the stadium in the fourth quarter when your team is down and they played like shit all day. … No one has the energy to go through another four years of publishing this stuff even though the first four years were very good for publishers.”

Where Trump’s first victory triggered blue America’s fight instinct, the aftermath of this year’s win is looking a lot more like flight... </excerpt>