Texas is poised to make measles a nationwide epidemic, public health experts say

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5. It is what happens when the RW weaponizes conspiracy theory as they did during COVID-19. Yes, there

had been decades of anti-vax skepticism before then (including among some health-driven but ill-informed liberals) but it was supercharged thereafter and made to be linked specifically to "Liberals' political aims" and supposed "malign" intent. Thus opposing all aspects- claiming the Left intended to harm with those policies-became an overriding tenet of the MAGA movement. How Trump managed to walk that tightrope-given his MAGATs opposed the very vaccine he initially promoted, speaks to the cult-like hold he has on these sadly pathetic people.