Gilead

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:

• Gilead:
  • Abortion
  • Academic repression
  • Competitive authoritarian regime project
  • Democratic Neoliberal Party
  • Donald Trump
  • Evangelical Protestants
  • Gun nuttery
  • Right-wing militias:
    • Military
    • Police White supremacist gangs
  • Gilead · Speaker of the House of Representatives, 2023
  • Twitter
  • White Christian nationalism
• Postal Service says it has ‘ample capacity’ to handle election after Trump casts doubt

See also:

• COVID-19 pandemic

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/↩