We are not talking enough about the “Big Lie.” The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 is finally here. With the years since it first aired, the Hulu original that forecasts a totalitarian, theocratic takeover of the United States is starting to feel more and more like a near-future documentary. Now, I’m probably not the first to have this “art-imitating-life” thought but there are some haunting prelusions to our Founders’ warnings about our anti-government reflexes and mob rule.
In the fictional world of Gilead where women become property and are bred by radical, elite, alt-Christian rebels, you have to believe there was an effective messaging campaign that foreshadowed their military one. And if I’m a betting man, which is still illegal in Kentucky, I’d bet that the trust and faith in elections was the first casualty in that war.