Welcome back to Gilead. Feminists are re-purposing The Handmaid’s Tale costumes they debuted in 2017 to protest Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. It’s a bad look for a number of reasons.

The comparison is to the book/show’s fictional world of Gilead, where women are raped and forced to serve as human incubators amid an infertility crisis. That’s not exactly Kavanaugh’s America. But by haunting the halls of Senate office buildings dressed as the women of Gilead, they’re hoping to raise the stakes, stirring disproportionate fears that heighten pressures on centrist Republicans and Democrats to vote against the nominee. From some of them, it’s dishonest; from others, it’s delusional.