Don’t frame this as “oh, the pandemic is so politicized…”
What’s on display here is the radicalization of the Republican Party. There is no equivalent on the “Left” to an official GOP account propagating vaccine misinformation, endangering the lives of hundreds of thousands.
What’s on display here is the radicalization of the Republican Party. There is no equivalent on the “Left” to an official GOP account propagating vaccine misinformation, endangering the lives of hundreds of thousands.
The tweet has since been deleted - but there’s not going to be an apology or any kind of substantive retraction, of course, because Republicans either actually believe this nonsense or consider this type of bad-faith propaganda a legitimate tactic in the war against the Left.
Is there a line? Anything that’s *not* permitted? Anything that’s so extreme, so dangerous that it’s not justified in defense against what they see as the radically Un-American leftist threat? Republicans are giving us their answer every day - and that should terrify us.
And since it’s apparently still considered controversial to point out that the radicalization of the Republican Party is not just threatening democracy, but is killing people: Around 250,000 deaths since vaccination became available for everyone, vast majority unvaccinated.
https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1476550910574690304
And there is a strong correlation between Trump vote share and vaccination rate / death rate. How many people unnecessarily lost their lives because of the exact type of Covid misinformation that the Republican Party endorses or, at least, condones? npr.org/sections/healt…
For the record: There is plenty to be criticized about the way the Biden administration and Democrats on all levels have handled the pandemic. Plenty! But that can’t blind us to the fact that the accelerating radicalization of the American Right is an acute threat to the polity.
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