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Salon
Politics
Nina Burleigh

The GOP's "Gilead Playbook"

A Pro-choice activist dressed in a Handmaid costume as they demonstrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Ever since the early morning hours of Nov. 9, 2016, standing in a ballroom with red-hatted Trump election celebrants in the New York Hilton, I've been waiting for this moment. This eruption of misogyny, unlike any since perhaps the witch trials and the burnings of midwives at the stake, was only a matter of time.

As shocking, as wildly insulting as that pussy-grabber winning the presidency was to American women and girls, it was just the beginning of what appears to be a long season of sadism.

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