The Sinister Reason(s) Why Republicans Now Want Their Voters Vaccinated

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9. Their whole strategy was contingent on blue states

getting hit the hardest and red states somehow skating through. Of course that's not how viruses work, but what can you expect from a party led by a man who seriously suggests people ingest bleach as a way of warding off infection?

Wasn't it Jared Kushner who was advising the Slobfather to downplay the pandemic, since it was impacting mostly blue states?

But now that it's hurting (and killing) "the wrong people" we'll see their leadership try to turn on a dime.

Irony of ironies--their whole campaign blew up in their faces.

I suspect the same will happen with climate change. Once red states and counties start feeling the brunt of the full impact of climate change--for instance the Florida coastline awash, parts of Louisiana subsumed by the Gulf, temperatures in the Dakotas and the south staying in triple digits for weeks on end, multiple "thousand year storms" hitting the southeast in rapid succession, the Texas power grid failing again and again--they'll suddenly start telling us how they knew all along that climate change was real, but those pesky Democrats refused to listen.

If so many millions of people weren't being hurt, the extent of their twisting and turning would be laughable.