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I finished Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause. There were parts of it I enjoyed, but other parts I found incredibly frustrating.

The book invents a future that is near dystopia, but has in it a few magic caveats that just so happen to let a version of hope in peaceful liberalism be uplifted as the answer to everything.

For example, the book highlights the danger of calling the police, but then the danger always ends in skepticism. When faced with violence, the book still suggests calling the police and then the police use their own violence to deal with far-right actors instead of joining with them and killing the protagonists.

It's a solar punk novel, but it envisions a future with a DSA president, friendly police, and mutual aid and solidarity filling all of the gaps. It whitewashes the fact that if you do those things in a way that threatens those in power, then they will kill you for it.