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If you are not familiar with the TV show or the book, the Handmaid’s Tale, here’s a quick explainer.

“Based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, this series is set in Gilead, a totalitarian society in what used to be part of the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters….”

Back in 2018, activist Amy Siskind posted a couple of tweets about her thoughts:

CNN media critic (and amateur storm chaser) Brian Stelter took issue with Siskind’s post and replied back.

He then doubled down on his post with a follow up.

Stelter has since pulled the post as the Supreme Court ruled to basically gut abortion rights in Texas.

What is also interesting, a year after Stelter claimed that our country was nothing like the fictional land of Gilead, he had Handmaid’s producer Warren Littlefield and actor Ann Dowd on his ironically named “Reliable Sources” show, and asked this question:

STELTER: And everyone, as they watch Handmaid’s Tale, thinks about what’s happening in this country right now. How close or how far do you think America really is to the fictional hellscape of Gilead?

DOWD: A heck of a lot closer than we were season one, which is terrifying.

STELTER: Only a couple of years ago, and the country has gone backwards.

H/T Mediaite