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There were probably more than one hundred books about Trump and/or the danger he poses to democracy published over the last 8 years. Many DUers have read one or more of these books. I can't provide a link, but I recall hearing that there is an effort by GOP politicians to resurrect defamation laws that are far more expansive in their definition of what constitutes defamation, allowing far more people to sue. Even in the case of frivolous lawsuits, such lawsuits can cost millions to defend.

For that reason I fear that publishers may be more reluctant to publish books critical of Trump and his administration, or even books of the type Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Timothy Snyder and Anne Applebaum write: cautionary histories and reflections about how democracies are weakened and destroyed.

(EDIT: The United Kingdom is an example of a place where authors can be sued and legally harassed for writing truthful but critical works. See the nightmare Catherine Belton went through after publishing "Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West," a book highly critical of several Russian oligarchs.)

We'll see though. Perhaps these worries are unjustified.