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“The Boys” gives us a grim warning of Trumpism’s endgame

The political assassination plot is a coincidence. Pay attention to the empty unity rhetoric and what happens next

Published July 21, 2024 1:30PM (EDT)

In 2018, I had a short conversation with a well-known TV journalist that I’ll never forget about “The Handmaid’s Tale.” This person had asked me about a commentary I wrote about its harrowing second season and weighed in with a contrary view that went along the lines of, “Actually, it makes me feel optimistic.” Baffled by that interpretation, I asked why.

“Because that will never happen here,” they said.

There is no way this person could have known Roe v. Wade would be overturned four years later. Scratch that — maybe they could have, if they noticed the steady erosion of reproductive freedoms already in motion.

I share this anecdote to illustrate the pitfalls of cloaking real-world crises in elaborate settings, costumes and dystopian oddity. Don’t take that the wrong way; these descriptors apply to some of my favorite stories.

But the proliferation of such unrealities allows many to accept “The Handmaid’s Tale” at face value, drawing relief from its alternate reality designation. Who would ever think that the right to work, read or exist........

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