On The Other Hand…

The embedded both-sides bs of the DC media would be ridiculous if it weren’t dangerous. https://t.co/Sh3R1cK2QP

— Reed Galen (@reedgalen) July 31, 2021

How much can you discuss after "Nothing"?

Many House Republicans are playing out their own version of the old joke about neo-Nazis being unable to decide whether the Holocaust never happened or happened and was a good thing https://t.co/rwVHScJhGy

— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) July 31, 2021

Historians will fill volumes both with that “nothing” and with trying to figure out why so many office holders shared the same insanity at one time. The idea that millions were convinced it was in their best interests to expose themselves to a deadly disease will go down alongside the Salem Witch Trials. The common denominator will be isolation. The people of Salem were isolated from a larger world, so one explanation goes. Many of the fiercest critics of the vaccine are joined to a “virtual” community but isolated from the rest of the world.

There are always common factors. But isolation from the main is much more difficult than it was in 17th century New England. Besides, we have political parties now:

Frustration with 'belligerently unvaccinated Republicans' could cost the GOP the midterms: analysis
https://t.co/Pl7MqUgIxE

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 1, 2021

The GOP base may think vaccines are unnecessary; but that’s hardly a universally held view. And the majority are increasingly disinterested in the attempted tyranny of the minority.