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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But he is unconstrained by the substance of what his base wants.
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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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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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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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Not sure about about conflict w/ base. Remember Arendt quote about changing views when propaganda changes.
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