ideal of christian manhood, somebody who is rugged, who is tough, who will protect christianity, protect christian america, and frankly, do what needs to be done. yeah, i it s like a crusades version of christianity rather than, i think they would despise actually historical jesus because they thought he was being too soft. they turn the other cheek stuff they would find ridiculous. you know, jeff charlotte describe this as sort of wanting a wolfgang of saying that they want somebody who is root, crude, and horrible because he is going to be, like, a warrior for the fate. they believe that jesus favors strong man who built his kingdom and forget about piety, that s the way he kind of describe it. but i wonder, is it really just a very fancy religious cover for men who just don t want to help their wives with the baby and really just want women to shut up and make them a sandwich? and they are trying to sort of cloak it in with but at the end of the day, they just want to change dia
yes. this is not like some overwhelming crazy 90/10 issue. what has festered, and this is the problem in a numerical sense. if we want to stamp out the virus, and we have the vaccines to do it because god bless america, we re sitting on tens of millions of venes, you need thresholds of compliance and of vaccination that are hard to get with this hard core crew. and jeff, i feel like one of the things we saw, and you know, not to get too biblical here, but i know you studied religion. there s a little bit of, like, give us barabas moment in front of that crowd with trump looking like pilot, where it s like, i don t know. what do you want? you want the vaccines, you don t want the vaccines? he s catering to the crowd. he s not telling them. this stuff is not coming from him. it s coming from somewhere else. yeah, i think that s such an important point. while we focus on trump, on desantis, on greg abbott, we focus on these villains, we have
conspiracy theories. qanon is a fringe movement, a fringe movement that we know at this point in many ways drives the republican party. what you re saying resonates with me. i m a vermonter, not a republican, but i appreciate my governor phil scott for giving me the best vaccination defense in the nation. not listening to qanon, not listening to that single heckler in the crowd. kristen soltis anderson, jeff charlotte, that was great. thank you both. thank you. tonight, the pfizer vaccine becomes the first covid shot to get full fda approval. now this might not sound like that big of a deal, millions of shots have been dwiblted, after all, people have been getting it for the past nine months, so what changes today? it could be a crucial turning point in the fight against the disease. i m going to explain why right after this break. don t go anywhere.
for donald trump, watch fox news, and got vaccinated. who want to get vaccinated, who think other people should get vaccinated. i think that a majority on the right, we re talking about a small fraction of americans who are driving this. and honestly, they are a huge part of why we are where we are. they are a huge reason this chart looks the way it does, because ultimately, those yahoos who booed the former president when he meekly almost apologetically said, hey, safe and effective vaccine could prevent you from dying a horrible disease. i got it because i don t want to die, they re the ones who have managed to seize a veto on covid policy for a huge part of america. kristen soltis anderson is the cofounder of echelon insights. jeff charlotte is a contributor editor of vanity fair. kristen, the polling on all
theseroomen politicians have not been pushing the vaccine. i disagree, and i disagree for this reason. it me, it s a difference between being on the record and deciding it s something you want to say. we have seen republican politicians, phil scott in vermont, do the thing where they really go out day after day to make sure that their state is vaccinated. there are republican governors who have done that. i think mike dewine has done it to a certain extent, but i think the veto power of the heckler, the heckler s veto, jeff, that we saw from that crowd, it cows everyone. that is the thing. they are scared of those people. they do not want to get cross wise of them. that s the tendency of today s republican party. when we look at anti-vaccination sentiment and its roots in qanon, qanon which already had this deep fear of big pharma, this idea that elites were harvesting strange substances and trying to put it in their bodies or who knows what, these