CBS Saturday Morning’s has recently taken it upon itself to deliver gushing interviews of liberal heroes. First there was actress Jane Fonda, then there was Clinton strategist James Carville. This Saturday it was author Margaret Atwood’s turn, and co-host Michelle Miller was there to help her affirm the idea that the conservative-imposed dystopia she wrote about in The Handmaid’s Tale is no longer a work of fiction.
Miller, who also conducted the Carville interview and whose husband is the former Democratic mayor of New Orleans and current president of the National Urban League, declared in a voiceover that the book “struck a chord after the 2016 election and a promise to end abortion rights. Although written in the era of another Republican president, Ronald Reagan.”
The premise behind The Handmaid’s Tale is that America has fallen into…
