Except that @GOP didn't "replace" @TheDemocrats as the antivaccine party, and I never said that they did. @TheDemocrats were actually never the antivaccine party. THAT was the stereotype. The headline of my post read: "The Republican Party is now undeniably the antivaccine party"

I mean, I like having my articles shared, but don't try to change my intent by using a headline that doesn't convey my intent. That, I will call out. Every time.

The intro of my post was all about how not so long ago the stereotype of antivaxxers was that they were hippy-dippy lefties, but that was never true. Antivaxxers have always spanned the political spectrum, and in fact there were lots of right wing antivaxxers back in the day.

It's only been in the last decade or so that the politics of the antivaccine movement have shifted decisively rightward. It's a shift that I first noticed a little over a decade ago that accelerated in 2015 with the California law that eliminated nonmedical exemptions.

The shift was then turbocharged by #COVID19, unfortunately, so that now the @GOP no longer just panders to antivaxxers. It is full of antivaxxers. Unlike the case of @TheDemocrats, who do have some antivaxxers, Republican antivaxxers are no longer fringe. They're the party base.

Can anyone say, for instance, that @marwilliamson or @RobertKennedyJr are mainstream @TheDemocrats? No. But @RandPaul and a number of other antivaxxers are mainstream @GOP. /end