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hurrdurr57 | 1 year ago

Could you imagine how different things would have turned out if the vaccine was ready while Trump was still in office?

The right wing media outlets would be praising it and claiming that it was everyone's patriotic duty to get vaccinated.

The left wing media outlets would be pushing out articles and documentaries about how vaccine compliance is rooted in implicit white supremacy.

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lamontcg|1 year ago

> The left wing media outlets would be pushing out articles and documentaries about how vaccine compliance is rooted in implicit white supremacy.

In 2013, 38% of Democrats and 22% of Republicans supported Obama's missile strikes on Syria. In 2017, 37% of Democrats and 86% of Republicans supported Trump's missile strikes on Syria.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/04/gop-voters-love-same...

The political parties aren't simplistic mirror images of each other. The Republicans are the ones that really flip mindlessly based on whoever is in power (and then once their guy is no longer in power -- like Bush -- they turn on him years later and forget they ever supported those policies at the time).