About the Book: Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Were in this together. For the past two years, Joyce Vance has signed off posts
on her chart-topping Substack Civil Discourse with these four words. In that
time, shes guided readers through a continued erosion of democratic norms, the
unprecedented felony conviction of an ex-president, and the approaching spectre
of a second Trump Administration. Now, that its upon us, Vance helps us
understand how to avoid burnout and despair and exercise the democratic muscles
we need to save the Republic. GIVING UP IS UNFORGIVABLE is a clarion call to
action-putting our current