WAPO: We are witnessing a war on women

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18. American Taliban

Many moons ago, Daily Kos called out the Republican right as the American Taliban.

Screeches and howling ensued.

But, as it turns out, that label was astonishingly prescient.

Of course, we had a much earlier warning from Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale which I read when the novel was first published, a wild speculative ride, I thought. The rise of a totalitarian power, a movement that splits the country and has women under total subjugation, the patriarchy on steroids?

Scary, chilling but not feasible, Peggysue mused. Wrong!

Terrifyingly prescient.

We're now watching fiction turn to reality.

Women are the major objects of MAGA's ideological assault, the ambition to remove our agency and control every aspect of our lives, down to the most personal: reproductive choice and health.

We can stop this. We have the numbers. We can stop this not merely for ourselves but for the generations who follow.

The urgency of the moment is upon us.