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:
- Gilead:
- Postal Service says it has ‘ample capacity’ to handle election after Trump casts doubt
See also:
- [1]Margaret Atwood, Handmaid’s Tale (New York: Anchor, 1998).↩
- [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/↩