re: #153 ericblair

I’m not so sure. The huge mass of conservative anti-vaxxers didn’t simply appear; that position has been more a crunchy granola-mom sort of thing.

He led them there. He lied about getting the vaccine himself because he had already spun up the conservative base to oppose it. His favourite outlets parroted that position to reinforce it. He led them on with such things as hydroxychloriquine, and promoting quacks as real medicine.

He was booed because he expressed a heretical position for the conservative faith.

Shame works both ways. It can be used to shame someone expressing a RINO position back in line.