In fact, increasingly it’s the whole damned @GOP.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/04/19/gop-has-become-antivaxer/ …
-
-
The bottom line is, antivaxxers have successfully grafted their message of opposition to school vaccine mandates onto messages of “parental rights,” limiting government “overreach,” and “health freedom.”
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Those messages were the Trojan horse that let the more hard core antivax beliefs into
@GOP.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted David Gorski, MD, PhD
An aside... https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1211055043060875264?s=21 …https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1211055043060875264 …
David Gorski, MD, PhD added,
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Yes, there are antivax liberals and
@TheDemocrats. There are@RobertKennedyJr,@DrJillStein,@marwilliamson, for example.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Here’s the difference. Unlike the case for
@GOP, antivaxxers have little influence in@TheDemocrats. Unlike Republicans running for office, Dems don’t see political advantage pandering to antivaxxers because they have little influence in the party’s base.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Look at the 2016
@GOP primary debates. In one debate,@RandPaul,@ChrisChristie, Ben Carson, and, of course,@realDonaldTrump all pandered to antivaxxers by opposing or being weak on school vaccine mandates.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/donald-trump-and-the-dangerous-vaccine-politics-of-the-2016-presidential-race/ …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Look at the difference.
@RandPaul is antivax af, and yet he’s a powerful senator and@GOP figure. Ditto Ben Carson, who’s a cabinet officer.@realDonaldTrump is President.@ChrisChristie is still a respected GOP pol.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
In contrast,
@marwilliamson is fringe in@TheDemocrats, even though she’s still inexplicably in the race for the presidential nomination.@RobertKennedyJr holds no office and is held in contempt. He only gets by on his family name, and even they’ve criticized him.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
There’s just no comparison between
@GOP and@TheDemocrats when it comes to antivaccine views.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Even though the prevalence of antivaccine views is roughly similar on the left and the right, today, as 2019 draws to a close, the loudest, most influential antivax voices are overwhelmingly on the right and far more associated with @GOP than @TheDemocrats.
-
-
So the only reason you’d be highlighting this is to call out gun-loving anti-science Jesus freaks of the Republican Party. Because the answer to your question sir as I wrote before is that Republicans support individual rights and limited government.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @writerroya @gorskon and
If a Democrat started talking about limited government then their party would turn on them. You made “right wing” sound like white supremacists and conspiracists and then proceeded to list the basic
@GOP party.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.