Indeed, it is not inaccurate to conclude that the @GOP has become the antivax party. At the very least its candidates feel obligated to pander to antivaxers in a way that @TheDemocrats most definitely do not. 3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/10/25/the-republican-party-has-become-the-antivaccine-party …
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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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also at the federal level - in 2016, the GOP candidate (now POTUS) linked vaccines with autism and even met with Andrew Wakefield at a fundraiser, while the Dem candidate was unequivocal that
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