I agree. But to be clear the original comment / context is about MAGA / Trump. I think responding 'No, you're wrong! RFK is the reason' to a thread about Trump and then retreating to RFK's activities over the last 20 years is arguing in bad faith.
replyThe entire reason I made my original comment is because it's important to recognize that this is not a Trump thing, and getting rid of Trump / MAGA will not suddenly convince people that vaccines are good.
It's not _solely_ a Trump thing, but he gave RFK an enormous platform and has himself been espousing demonstrably untrue things about vaccines and vaccination schedules. This very week, in fact. [1]
replyIf you don't see this as an enormous amplification, I don't think you're operating in good faith.
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/well/trump-vaccines-fact-...
Pre-Trump, anti-vaxxers were notorious left-wing granola types. Lots of anti-vaxxers were white liberals living in Marin and NorCal and sending their children to private schools like Waldorf.
replyOnly after Trump did people start lumping them in with right wing.
Trump gave them official government support and promoted them.
replyWell that’s just not true, anti vax has always been a theme of the far right, infowars and i’m sure others have a long history of it.
replyThe left wing libs types are far more recent, and i would lump them more in with the wellness brigade.
You are completely wrong. It's always been a far left concept until COVID.
replyThis is from Mother Jones, a very liberal web site.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/the-anti-vax-mo...
Here’s an earlier article from another leftist site https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/25/mmr-scare-an...
reply> Pre-Trump, anti-vaxxers were notorious left-wing granola types
replyso, exactly RFK's type :)