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As I'm renting the tv series The Handmaid's Tale, I'm also watching Trump. It's eerie how closely this series from a book written more than 30 years ago is mirroring what's happening now in our society. Latest example? Trump's attack on four Congresswomen.

Doubtless you've read the tweets and heard him go on about it in person - he wants the four women of color, all Americans, three born here and one who immigrated when she was a child, to go back to where they came from .....



The Congresswomen Trump attacked respond ...



As Congresswoman Pressley said, Trump wants to distract us from his treatment of immigrants at the border, his recent rape charge (E. Jean Carroll), the arrest of his good buddy and fellow pervert Jeffrey Epstein, his effort to do away with legal options to apply for asylum, his pathetic showing in 2020 presidential polls, etc.

And he wants to feed the dead-heads in his base, which we might as well just call the Republican party, since 87% of Republicans approve of Trump. Let's not pretend that they put up with his negative words and behavior because his policies are so important to them. They enjoy his cruelty to immigrants, they like that he bullies and sexually assault women, they like his white nationalist rhetoric, they like that he's a financial crook, that he lies with impunity, that he gets away with it all. That's what they wish they could do as well. He is their avatar.

More on this from David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker: A Racist in the White House