Interviewer to Hillary: ‘Did You Watch the Emmys Last Night?’; Suggests ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Is ‘Sadly Resonant’

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MUSCATINE: "Did you watch the Emmys last night at all?"
[Laughter]
CLINTON: "I did. I did.

MUSCATINE: "I think many people may know you and your husband are big fans of television dramas and comedies, and if you watched as I'm sure many of you did you know the hand maid's tale was a big winner. And you and I have actually talked about that book in the past, written in 1985, a work of fiction that of course is now this wildly popular TV series that is about a liberal democracy slowly and very definitively becoming a totalitarian state, which of course is sadly and distressingly resonant at the moment. That whole idea of the normalization of the abnormal is terrifying. By the way, doesn't it just bug you when people say trump is -- this is the new normal? We should never call it normal, right? We should never say -- it's like the new abnormal. Not the new normal. But, I mean, seriously. It is terrifying and the hand maid tale resonates because of that. You do talk about that in your book from voter suppression, from the manipulation of the media to fake news to everything else. Just the assault on the democratic institutions we rely on that we need to be able to trust."