Tennessee vaccine official's story reveals an ugly truth about GOP and children's rights
Tennessee vaccine official's story reveals an ugly truth about GOP and children's rights
Posted: Jul 13, 2021 5:50 PM
Updated: Jul 13, 2021 5:50 PM
Posted By: Opinion by Jill Filipovic
The Donald Trump-fueled descent of the GOP into a party of reality-rejecting, science-denying conspiracy theorists is well-documented, and a growing phenomenon, as the extreme factions of the party overtake or push out the relatively few moderate Republicans remaining. And almost nowhere is the enduring harm of the Trump years more apparent than in the American right's response to the Covid-19 vaccine. Vaccinations, long rightly heralded as miracles of modern medicine that have saved millions of lives, are suddenly ideologically divisive along party lines.