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To me, that is the strangest twist in this whole story: that Trump gets boo-ed by his supporters when he advises them to get vaccinated. They blindly accept eve
by chihuahua 5y ago
To me, that is the strangest twist in this whole story: that Trump gets boo-ed by his supporters when he advises them to get vaccinated. They blindly accept everything he says, except for this one thing, which happens to be reasonable.
- wolverine876 5y agoHis endorsement of the vaccine was very thin cover to a mountain of attacks on everything they rely on (on Fauci, CDC, the 'deep state', all of government, science, it's just a flu, many, many others) and support for endless crazy conspiracy theories and their proponents. And how did he encourage the vaccines? We didn't have daily tweets saying things like 'TERRIBLE people opposing vaccines! SO SAD!!' He didn't really get behind them. You can't spend four years supporting everything that undermines them, and then quietly say 'get vaccinated'.
- nervlord 5y ago[dead]
- coolso 5y ago> that Trump gets boo-ed by his supporters Clarification: some of his supporters.
- shadowgovt 5y agoTrump is as much a symptom and focus as the cause of the memes that make up his support base. It's a key thing to keep in mind when considering his actions. He can rile people up in directions they're already leaning... He hasn't really demonstrated much ability to lean people in any particular novel direction, or against their pre-existing biases. He'll provide a focus to existing anger and say things that people don't want to say out loud, but he's as much a component of the overall anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment political wing as a leader of it.