Three years ago, I was warning about @GOP and its increasing pandering to antivaxxers. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/10/25/the-republican-party-has-become-the-antivaccine-party/ …
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Then again in 2019... 3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/04/19/gop-has-become-antivaxer/ …
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@GOP has become the party opposed to public health interventions in general. 4/4https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/12/02/antivaxxers-anti-public-health/ …Show this thread -
Actually, today's
@GOP is even worse in embracing antivaccine hysteria than even I would have predicted three years ago. 5/5Show this thread -
Forgot to mention: One can see the beginnings of
@GOP starting to dip its toe into adopting the "health freedom" rhetoric of antivaxxers to oppose vaccine mandates in the second Republican debate in 2015. 6/6https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/donald-trump-and-the-dangerous-vaccine-politics-of-the-2016-presidential-race/ …Show this thread
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Do they believe their rethoric, or is this blatant popularism?
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I think it's both. Depending on who's doing the pandering to antivaxxers, it could be one or the other, or a combination.
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Interesting. In Europe, it's the other way around.
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Far-right in Europe is also antivax.
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I remember when it was the super liberal, new age crystal-wearing granola type. It amazing how time changes things...
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