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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Aug 2021

      Jeet Heer Retweeted David Frum

      This is too much of a top-down account of what happened. In reality anti-vaxxers were an organic social movement & the crucial moment was pre-Covid: Trump's decision (based partly on opportunism but also partly on belief) to court them as part of his coalition of the aggrievedhttps://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1423621715364618241 …

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      David FrumVerified account @davidfrum
      Republican anti-vaxxism offers a fascinating study of relationship between right-wing elites vs. rank-and-file. Elites first fomented anti-vax feeling for partisan purposes. They succeeded so well that they cannot/dare not now reverse. Elite leads; rank-and-file then constrain.
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    2. David Frum‏Verified account @davidfrum 6 Aug 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      I believe Trump's anti-vaxxism was long-held and sincere. He needed an explanation for a family situation that cast doubt upon his belief in his Ubermensch genetic inheritance. Then anti-vaxxism became useful again as part of a deny-it-and-it-will-go-away COVID strategy in 2020

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    3. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 6 Aug 2021
      Replying to @davidfrum @HeerJeet

      Both you guys are right on this. I'm fascinated by the alt scenario that Trump manages to bully FDA to approve vaccines in October 2020. He was totally gungho for vaccines as the ticket to reelection and they might have been.

      8 replies 17 retweets 132 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Aug 2021
      Replying to @joshtpm @davidfrum

      Or an alternative scenario, if Trump had squeed through a 2016 style victory in 2020, would he and Fox be aggressively pushing vaccines? Almost certainly, but that would have put him in tension with base he previously cultivated.

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        2. Peter Loewen‏Verified account @PeejLoewen 6 Aug 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm @davidfrum

          But he is unconstrained by the substance of what his base wants.

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        3. Steven Scott‏ @scottstev 6 Aug 2021
          Replying to @PeejLoewen @HeerJeet and

          I disagree. He's very careful to keep the base in his corner. Fortunately for him, the base has very few policy preferences except for anti-immigration. The rest is lib-ownership that shifts with each news cycle.

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        2. Christopher Keelty (he/him)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @keeltyc 6 Aug 2021
          Replying to @DewsonIndie @HeerJeet and

          I agree with this. I think the fact that Trump "created" it and fully endorsed it would have persuaded his people. I can VERY easily picture him at the podium saying "Was this virus even really a threat? Who knows?! But get this shot and we can keep this going four more years."

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        1. Brian Cromulent 🇺🇦‏ @BrianCromulent 6 Aug 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm @davidfrum

          Look, if Trump had squeed out a 2016-style 2020 victory… … I think his policy on promoting or not promoting vaccines would be the least of our problems. The other catastrophes would be too terrible to imagine.

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        1. neverfatuousgeoff‏ @Geoffnot 6 Aug 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm @davidfrum

          Not sure about about conflict w/ base. Remember Arendt quote about changing views when propaganda changes.

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