What is the Gilead Gestapo?

When I refer to the Gilead Gestapo I'm referring to the Gilead of The Handmaid's Tale. And how that is increasingly developing in the US. 

 

"The Republic of Gilead, colloquially referred to as simply Gilead or elsewhere sometimes called, by its leadership, the 'Divine Republic', is the totalitarian patriarchal theocracy that rules over most of the territory that belonged to the former continental United States in The Handmaid's Tale. The regime that governs it can be seen as the overall antagonist of the television adaptation."