Gilead in Reverse

Good piece by Michelle Goldberg on how Donald Trump louche lifestyle is, its way, consistent with his culturally reactionary policies:

Now Trump, payer of hush money to a pornographic film actress, employer of Bill Shine, a man forced out of Fox News for his role in abetting sexual harassment, is putting himself between over a million poor women and their doctors. It’s ugly, but I’m not sure it’s hypocritical. Ultimately, the patriarchs of the fictional Gilead and the dreadfully real Mar-a-Lago share an ethos: harsh restrictions for powerless women, unbounded license for powerful men.

Exactly so. And one reason even theoretically pro-choice conservatives are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to Roe getting overruled is that they can be secure in the knowledge that women in their socioeconomic position will always have access to safe ones.