Atwood is not happy that Trump has stolen her story of a dystopian society and turned it into reality. It was meant to be a work of fiction not a howto manual.
The Handmaid’s Tale [is] unfolding in front of your very eyes.
Margaret Atwood’s book about a dystopian post-American society called Gilead was written as fiction. In the Handmaid’s Tale the isolationist society is controlled by group of religious extremists who strip ‘unworthy’ women of autonomy. Censorship is rampant in Gilead with any person who criticises the leadership getting harsh investigation and treatment.
You get dictatorships when times are bad and chaotic, because people are willing to trade in their democratic rights for somebody who says they can fix it. That is usually a lie. But that’s how you get there.
The obvious similarities between the Trump administration with the Project 2025 manifesto and Atwood’s book raises the real possibility that the Trump administration has copied the book to turn it into a reality.