The Bachelorette finale betrayed Jenn Tran in her break-up with Devin Strader

Watching Tuesday night’s finale of The Bachelorette, one phrase kept ringing in my mind: The cruelty is the point.

The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer wrote those words in 2018 to explain the appeal of Donald Trump’s particularly mean-spirited brand of politics. But the same ethos can be applied to…