What makes The Handmaid’s Tale so correspondent to reality is that the right and the left both often base their political imperatives on withdrawing and trading away the rights of women.

The men and the authoritarian theocracy in THT have a mixture of (mostly) right-wing ideas with some left-wing pragmatism and language tossed in. Reminds me very much of many of Donald Trump’s supporters, and that is not accidental.

Many of the left’s “compromises” betray women every opportunity they get, by the way.

It’s not just the right. Nope.

I think about 80% of right-wing men and 60% of left-wing men would be perfectly happy to live in a society similar to Gilead.

So, yes, the right is worse. But it’s not alone. “Not worse” doesn’t mean at all great.