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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

      8 replies 10 retweets 73 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Aug 2021
      Replying to @davidfrum

      Right, Trump's anti-vaxxing is sincere but it also fit into his 2015/2016 strategy of forming a coalition of groups estranged from mainstream (alt-right, anti-immigration, protectionists, isolationists). He was a good demagogue because he believed in what he sold.

      3 replies 3 retweets 27 likes
    4. David Frum‏Verified account @davidfrum 6 Aug 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      The question under debate though is: were right-wing elites constrained *from the start* to be anti-vax? I answer No. Now they're trapped, though, by the political realities they themselves created when they had more options.

      4 replies 8 retweets 40 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Aug 2021
      Replying to @davidfrum

      Yeah, that's right.

      6:03 AM - 6 Aug 2021
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