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Climate science is probably the area where the GOP is most obviously fantastical - anti-expert, anti-empirical, most clearly in the pocket of an interested party (the energy industry). But it also shows how gullible Trump voters have become and distrustful of non-partisan /1
institutions they are. If Fox doesn’t say it, it isn’t true, even as weather events worsen. Finally, science has always been a tremendous source of US national power. We were always a decade or so ahead of the Soviets; we better use space; drones; stealth; and so on. And now /2
our ‘national security party’ thinks scientists are liberal traitors to the Trump coalition. This is grossly contradictory, and TV hosts should be asking about this all the time. Defense tech is conservative-approved science, you see. The rest is a UN conspiracy. Got that? END
