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    The Conservatives Who’d Rather Die Than Not Own the Libs

    Rarely has so significant a faction in American politics behaved in a way that so directly claims the life of its own supporters.
    by Conor Friedersdorf Sep 24, 2021 5 minutes
    Source: Jeenah Moon / Reuters

    At Breitbart News, the politics of vaccination have taken a strange turn. A longtime writer at the populist-right website who wants to save his Donald Trump–supporting readers from COVID-19 is speculating that the left has tricked them into rejecting safe and effective vaccines.

    John Nolte is vaccinated himself and, in an article this week, correctly notes that the shots are “a lifesaver.” But every time he touts what he calls the “Trump vaccine,” his Twitter feed and comment threads on his articles get flooded with irrational arguments and unfounded assertions from anti-vaxxers, he writes. That’s no surprise. The populist-right milieu that Nolte inhabits includes lots of influential voices that spread misinformation about vaccines on Fox News, talk radio, and Facebook. For example, America’s most prominent populist commentator, the Fox host Tucker Carlson, has been Nicki Minaj’s thirdhand claim that a vaccine had swollen her cousin’s friend’s testicles.

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