The Handmaid's Tale

Cate Cox couldn't wait for Texas to join the 21st century and left the state to get her needed abortion. Having embraced draconian measures thanks to hitching its wagon to the fire and brimstone fervor of its nutty evangelical base, the GOP has proven to be every bit the radical product of what happens when you lose your humanity and your common sense. For his part Texas attorney general Ken Paxton is a philandering and corrupt hypocrite, but that doesn't matter to a party whose "Orange Jesus" is himself severely morally challenged.

The Republicans' decades-old southern strategy certainly paid off in spades except now it has spawned a monster that can no longer be stopped other than at the ballot box and, if Americans value their individual rights, they won't just rely on Jack Smith to get a conviction. That is unless they prefer encroachment towards a real life version of "The Handmaid's Tale"