Letter From America

Marion McKeone: For Donald Trump’s female supporters, no transgression is too great

The former president remains the ballot box choice for white Christian evangelical women

The January 2017 Women's March, protesting the newly minted President Trump’s misogyny and policies, was the largest single-day protest in US history. Picture: Ryan McBride/AFP via Getty Images

Three months after Donald Trump’s January 2017 inauguration, Hulu began screening its acclaimed adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel about a totalitarian and religiously fundamentalist regime in which enslaved women are forced to bear children.

There was an eerie prescience to the timing. The day after Trump’s inauguration, more than 470,000 women marched through the streets of Washington, DC protesting the newly minted president’s misogyny and policies which they warned would roll ...