Today, in 2019, nearly all the loudest, most influential, and dangerous antivax voices are on the right. You have to search hard to find for influential lefty antivaxers. @RobertKennedyJr is one. It goes way downhill after that (e.g., @RobSchneider). 2/
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Only one party,
@GOP, is sympathetic enough to antivax arguments that its candidates now regularly pander to antivaxers and work to pass antivax-friendly legislation, at least at the state level.@TheDemocrats just don't do that. 13/Show this thread -
That's why last year I said to vote as if your children's health depended on it, because it did, given the number of
@GOP antivaxers who were running for office all over the nation. 14/Show this thread -
It's why I was very happy that
@pjcolbeck was term-limited and@SenPolehanki won the election to become my state senator. 15/Show this thread -
Similarly, I was overjoyed that
@MattforMichigan soundly defeated incumbent@Vote_Jeff_Noble and became my state representative. 16/Show this thread -
Meanwhile, I hope that
@GOP someday stops providing a political home for antivaxers. @SGottliebFDA, for example, is very pro-vax, but that's not enough. 17/Show this thread -
And, in fairness, antivaxers are still a minority in
@GOP, but their numbers and influence appear to be growing, thanks to the skill with which antivaxers have conflated freedom, deregulation, and parental rights with their pseudoscience. 18/Show this thread -
If pro-vax conservatives don't push back against the rising tide of antivax pseudoscience in their party, the
@GOP will truly become the antivax party. 19/19Show this thread -
And...as if on cue... 19a/19https://twitter.com/siubhan_h/status/1101925769230446593 …
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yep, just look at Oklahoma’s new governor Kevin shit-Stitt
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