It's been about 15 years since I read the book but it seemed to me at the time that the actual transition and mechanism of that transition from a Democratic government to Gilead was pretty sketchy in the story. I didn't think it was all that plausible (essentially Christian fanatics just machine gun Congress and POOF - United States of Saudi Arabia).

But regardless of whether or not you think the story was plausible, the connection with Donald Trump is lost on me. I can think of few politicians who have less in common with Gilead as described in HT as Trump. In fact, he is pretty much the antithesis of what Gilead represents. I can only presume that the comparison is just a very thinly veiled rehash of the "war on women" rehetoric that's been leveled against the Republicans for years. It has pretty much nothing to do with Trump, who is a sexist boor, but as far from a fundamentalist Christian misogynist as... well... ummm... anyone, ever.