strength before the next serious book. Or at least something that won't make me despondent.

I've been considering at these:
Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid Joe Klein
Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong by Kathleen Hall Jamieson
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire by Matt Taibbi
F.U.B.A.R.: America's Right-Wing Nightmare Sam Seder & Stpehen Sherrel

I know you don't know me, but I'm progressive and agnostic (probably atheist.)

Any recommendations? Any of these secret rw crap I should avoid?

I've read Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them and loved it. Though, come to think of it, that made me depressed, too. I guess that's par for the course when looking at politics in America in the last 8 years, at least.