The Handmaid's Tale is a look into a world where the Evangelicals manage to take power and enforce their religious doctrine on everyone else... a sickening world by practically every measure for a sane person.
You know, having grown up among Evangelicals, it's strange that if that's what they want, they make a habit of sending their daughters to college, teaching them how to shoot, etc, etc.
My father got up and made my mother coffee before she got out of bed, even though he didn't drink the stuff himself, for decades. Eventually he did start drinking it too. The only time my father ever came
close to striking me in anger (something he never actually did), was for disrespecting my mother.
I knew an Evangelical man recovering from Cancer, who set up a heater in a hunting blind for his wife, so she could enjoy deer season in comfort. He also practiced pistol shooting with her; they'd compete as a team.
Ravi Zacharias, one of the most famous Christian theologists of the last 30 years, publicly states that his wife has final editorial authority over the (many) books that he has written and published. Last I checked, one of his daughters runs one of the organizations he founded.
But yes. Tell me about these terrifying Evangelicals, because I've never met one of the sort 'Handmaid's Tale' proposes in my life. I've met fringe 'christian' groups that have actual patriarchal authoritarian practices, but they tend to be highly exclusionary and isolationist by nature, the exact
opposite of Evangelicals.