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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 17

    Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Tim Miller

    Your effort to paint vaccine resistance as solely a function of Republican partisanship is false, it is dishonest, & it is belied by the data. You know it. I know it. Our readers know it.https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1416503792707665923 …

    Dan McLaughlin added,

    Tim MillerVerified account @Timodc
    No shit Dan glad to see you are now concerned about racial equity. I know you think this is clever but people can see thru efforts to distract from the fact that the main driver of the vaccination issue is red states and communities in that have been fed bad info by charlatans 1/ https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1416501187164131333 …
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      2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 17

        Anyone remotely familiar with anti-vaxx sentiment in general, & COVID anti-vaxx in particular, knows both that 1) right-wing anti-vaxxism is a real problem & 2) anti-vaxx is nowhere near exclusively a right-wing issue.

        36 replies 23 retweets 229 likes
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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 17

        Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Tim Miller

        Notice Tim doing the thing where (some) white people are presumed to be making voluntary choices for which they are responsible, but non-white people are not. Vaccines are now pervasively available. Don't pretend that only one of the resistant populations is resistant.https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1416503792707665923 …

        Dan McLaughlin added,

        Tim MillerVerified account @Timodc
        No shit Dan glad to see you are now concerned about racial equity. I know you think this is clever but people can see thru efforts to distract from the fact that the main driver of the vaccination issue is red states and communities in that have been fed bad info by charlatans 1/ https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1416501187164131333 …
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        10 replies 20 retweets 157 likes
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      4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 17

        You can see the existence of those groups in the datahttps://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/us-vaccine-demographics.html …

        3 replies 6 retweets 73 likes
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      5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 17

        The idea that we should mockingly dunk on some ordinary folks who have a bad opinion while weeping crocodile tears for other ordinary folks who have the same opinion, distinguished only by their partisan voting patterns, is everything wrong with Extremely Online Partisanship.

        10 replies 26 retweets 185 likes
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      6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 17

        Any political party that contends for a majority will have a lot of people in it who are ignorant, resentful, bigoted, superstitious, and/or just plain stupid. This has always been true of all major parties in any democracy. Half the voters are below average in anything.

        9 replies 11 retweets 101 likes
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      7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 17

        "Our voters have excuses for their dumbassery, yours don't" is hackery. Everybody has their dumbasses.

        10 replies 16 retweets 146 likes
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      8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 17

        As for the @michaelbd point about public health officials needing to meet all of these vaccine skeptics where they are: facts may not care about your feelings, but when you're charged with moving public sentiment, the feelings of the public are facts in & of themselves.

        18 replies 12 retweets 128 likes
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      9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 17

        Put another way: if you want to convince people to stop being wrong, you have to take account of why they are wrong. That includes both good & bad reasons for being wrong. That's as true if you're selling vaccines as if you're selling cigarettes, life insurance, or Jeb Bush.

        9 replies 5 retweets 83 likes
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      10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 17

        Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Fred Bauer

        This is also true, but also not a complete explanation. Anti-vaxx opinion may be more prevalent further down the social class scale, but it definitely has major pockets at all stages of that scalehttps://twitter.com/fredbauerblog/status/1416070086486597635 …

        Dan McLaughlin added,

        Fred BauerVerified account @fredbauerblog
        There's a case to be made that punditocracy (which is super-obsessed with partisan narratives around Trump) underestimates the class (and social-capital) valences of vaccine hesitancy. "Belmont" tends to be much more pro-vaccine, while "Fishtown" is more hesitant.
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      11. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 17

        Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Kyle Smith

        In case you need background on why a certain faction of NR's critics are so testy today.https://twitter.com/rkylesmith/status/1416502670626525192 …

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        Kyle SmithVerified account @rkylesmith
        National Review Says the Vaccines Are Good: A Collection https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/national-review-says-the-vaccines-are-good-a-collection/ … good summary @isaac_schorr
        10 replies 5 retweets 61 likes
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      12. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 18

        Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Heath Mayo

        Look at what people actually say: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/07/vaccine-equity-black-americans-biden-491973 … https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/945136592/many-hispanic-and-black-people-say-they-are-skeptical-about-covid-19-vaccine … https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/01/25/skepticism-and-mistrust-challenge-covid-vaccine-uptake-for-latinos/ … https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20210202/black-vaccine-hesitancy-rooted-in-mistrust-doubts … https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article250171290.html … https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/23/covid-vaccine-hesitancy/ … https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article249017040.html … https://time.com/5925074/black-americans-covid-19-vaccine-distrust/ …https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1416824541708390400 …

        Dan McLaughlin added,

        Heath Mayo @HeathMayo
        Dan, do you really think Black & Hispanic populations are *resisting* the vaccine? Or just have access issues? You seem to be suggesting the former here.. I don’t see these communities waging all-out disinfo campaigns & beating their chests about not taking the vaccine. Do you? https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1416501187164131333 …
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        7 replies 14 retweets 38 likes
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      13. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jul 18

        Where there has been success in breaking down black mistrust of the vaccine, guess which strategy worked: 1) Mocking people for being anti-vaxx 2) Reaching out through people they already trustedhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/getting-clearer-picture-black-americans-factors-overcame-their-vaccine-hesitancy-n1263787 …

        5 replies 6 retweets 38 likes
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      14. End of conversation

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