It’s been a weird month, both in the world of indie publishing and in the world at large – but I’m going to be focusing on the US for the purposes of this post because I’ll be covering a lot of seemingly unrelated ground before it all comes together.

A couple weeks ago a suicidal twenty year old obsessed with guns and bombs tried to assassinate Trump even though he was a registered Republican. The FBI found out he had been researching the nearest rallies for both Trump and Biden, and Trump just...