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2 Aug, 6 tweets, 1 min read
Some politically-motivated vaccine resistance was doubtless caused by Biden trying to erase Trump's contribution to vaccine development. Biden Dems turned the shots into a partisan political football as fast as they could, because they assumed everyone wanted them.
We're talking about a few months ago. It's not hard to remember how it went down. Biden's handlers assumed the shots were a golden gift that couldn't be squandered, no matter how aggressively they politicized vaccination. Biden's first few months were one long end-zone dance.
Dems were more interested in setting up political victory laps and daydreaming about "How Joe Biden Cured Covid" headlines than reaching across the aisle for a nonpartisan vaccine drive. They were trying to airbrush Trump out of the picture. His angry supporters noticed.
Even now Dems are handling vaccination as a partisan political issue - refusing to discuss the big vaccine-hesitant Dem constituencies, refusing to close the border, stoking resentments and divisions instead of unity.
The J&J debacle stalled out vaccinations - a debacle we never recovered from because there wasn't much in place to rebuild momentum after the stall. Media coverage is confused and alarming because they're not sure what political narrative Dems want them to run with.
Republicans have virtually zero presence in mainstream media since the 2020 election, so Dems are fully in control of the messaging, and accountable for its failures. What would vaccinations be like if Trump was on Twitter every day urging followers to get "his" shots? /end

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