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Illiberalism

Gilead


Fig. 1. The emblem of the Republic of Gilead. Icewizie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

‘Gilead’ is the name Margaret Atwood gave to the country south of Canada in which she set The Handmaid’s Tale.[1] As the United States becomes a white Christian nationalist country,[2] culminating a longstanding conservative project, I am finding the name appropriate and on these pages you will find an account of how this is coming to be:

See also:

Ishaan Tharoor, “Chaos in Congress points to failures in the U.S. system,” Washington Post, October 6, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/06/us-congress-global-europe-analysts-failure-dysfunction/

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, “As Russia ramps up ‘traditional values’ rhetoric − especially against LGBTQ+ groups − it’s won Putin far-right fans abroad,” Conversation, December 15, 2023, https://theconversation.com/as-russia-ramps-up-traditional-values-rhetoric-especially-against-lgbtq-groups-its-won-putin-far-right-fans-abroad-219102

Isaac Arnsdorf, “Trump quotes Putin condemning American democracy, praises autocrat Orban,” Washington Post, December 16, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/12/16/trump-authoritarians-putin-orban-poisoning-blood/

Rick Perlstein, “You Are Entering the Infernal Triangle,” American Prospect, January 3, 2023, https://prospect.org/politics/2024-01-03-you-are-entering-the-infernal-triangle/

  1. [1]Margaret Atwood, Handmaid’s Tale (New York: Anchor, 1998).
  2. [2]David Benfell, “My 2024 forecast,” Not Housebroken, June 11, 2022, https://disunitedstates.org/2022/03/10/my-2024-forecast/; David Benfell, “Start changing the border signs: ‘Welcome to Gilead,’” Not Housebroken, June 24, 2022, https://disunitedstates.org/2022/06/18/start-changing-the-border-signs-welcome-to-gilead/