Journalists who insist the conservatives don’t believe in facts are greeting the very fictional final season of The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu with the ridiculous rerun spin of “wow, this repressive religious dictatorship is so exactly like Trump’s America.”
Former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy – Mr. “Facts First” – used his Status newsletter to promote an interview with the series show-runners Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang to discuss “a world that, alarmingly, has striking similarities to the fictional Gilead.” What garbage. Darcy set the ideological stage:
With Donald Trump back in office, reproductive rights being stripped away, and democratic norms unraveling, the themes in the series that once felt like far-off storytelling now eerily resemble real-world headlines.
In a wide-ranging conversation with Status, Tuchman and Chang…
