RIGHT-WING LUNACY
How America’s Vaccination Campaign Fell Behind the World’s
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/how-america-lost-its-lead-vaccination/620201/
Derek Thompson notes:
The U.S. is distinctly unlucky in having a polarized two-party system, in which one party’s elites take up vaccine resistance as a prominent cause. While GOP governors and even former President Donald Trump have admitted to being vaccinated and occasionally recommended the shots, the party’s most significant media organs, including Fox News, have consistently questioned the benefits of the vaccines, amplified the side effects, celebrated evidence-free skepticism, and blasted attempts to promote vaccinations. Today, Florida Republicans aren’t just claiming that the vaccines are faulty. They’re reportedly looking to rescind measles- and mumps-vaccine requirements. Negative polarization has fully overtaken the right wing of the Republican Party, whose ethos is now something like “Whatever liberals say, I’m against” and whose members stand ready to embrace the most absurd conclusions of that logic.
The debt limit fight is a scam. The GOP counts on voters not knowing that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/debt-limit-ceiling-reconciliation-gop-biden/2021/09/24/e0dd1ce8-1c87-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.html
LEFT WING LUNACY
The meltdown among Democrats shows our budget debates are insane
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/24/meltdown-among-democrats-shows-our-budget-debates-are-insane/
To his fellow Democrats, Manchin has been a spoiler. But he’s also a useful scapegoat.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/23/his-fellow-democrats-manchin-has-been-spoiler-hes-also-useful-scapegoat/
The left’s failure to understand the importance and benefits of global trade
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/24/how-humble-metal-box-began-most-beneficial-economic-development-human-experience/
How America’s Vaccination Campaign Fell Behind the World’s
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/how-america-lost-its-lead-vaccination/620201/
Derek Thompson notes:
The U.S. is distinctly unlucky in having a polarized two-party system, in which one party’s elites take up vaccine resistance as a prominent cause. While GOP governors and even former President Donald Trump have admitted to being vaccinated and occasionally recommended the shots, the party’s most significant media organs, including Fox News, have consistently questioned the benefits of the vaccines, amplified the side effects, celebrated evidence-free skepticism, and blasted attempts to promote vaccinations. Today, Florida Republicans aren’t just claiming that the vaccines are faulty. They’re reportedly looking to rescind measles- and mumps-vaccine requirements. Negative polarization has fully overtaken the right wing of the Republican Party, whose ethos is now something like “Whatever liberals say, I’m against” and whose members stand ready to embrace the most absurd conclusions of that logic.
The debt limit fight is a scam. The GOP counts on voters not knowing that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/debt-limit-ceiling-reconciliation-gop-biden/2021/09/24/e0dd1ce8-1c87-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.html
LEFT WING LUNACY
The meltdown among Democrats shows our budget debates are insane
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/24/meltdown-among-democrats-shows-our-budget-debates-are-insane/
To his fellow Democrats, Manchin has been a spoiler. But he’s also a useful scapegoat.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/23/his-fellow-democrats-manchin-has-been-spoiler-hes-also-useful-scapegoat/
The left’s failure to understand the importance and benefits of global trade
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/24/how-humble-metal-box-began-most-beneficial-economic-development-human-experience/