A couple of weeks ago, I drove two hours north to the hillside town of Olyphant, Pennsylvania, just outside Scranton, to meet with a Donald Trump fan for a book project I’ve been working on. For 90 minutes, I listened to this 54-year-old laid-off factory worker and former Democrat who now says the more that liberal politicians and other elites voice their contempt for the ex-president, the more strongly he supports Trump.
Elsewhere across the US, some folks have not been as lucky with rolling the dice on Covid-19, during what should be the waning days of the pandemic but which – most frustratingly – are not. In the heart of Trump country in a deep red state, case counts have been surging in recent days. As the rate of new shots slowed – the nation fell just short of President Joe Biden’s seemingly reachable goal of 70% adult vaccination by July 4 – and as dangerous mutations like the delta variant spread among the unjabbed, the dream of herd immunity is slipping away. Fully vaccinated since mid-April, I’ve resumed wearing a mask in stores, as America once again snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
“Medical freedom is an individual right that should NEVER be infringed upon and any person who thinks otherwise has no place in our government,” the right-wing provocateur Candace Owens tweeted about her family’s vaccine refusal to her 2.7 million followers recently, joining a growing conservative chorus.
But experts like Huntsinger note that there’s a strong correlation between the philosophical traits of vaccine refusal – including the libertarian-flavored belief in “medical freedom” and distrust of authority figures like the nation’s infectious health leader Dr Anthony Fauci – and modern conservatism. That would certainly go a long way toward explaining the growing red state/blue state dividing line.
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