Republicans and conservatives think that just invoking Fauci's name is enough to validate their COVID-19 claims, but they're wrong
Fauci tends to favor the hypothesis that the virus reached humans from animal hosts through natural means rather than from a laboratory accident, much less a deliberate release. But he doesn’t rule out either theory or advocate abandoning one or the other course for further investigation.
None of this is novel as a political technique. Facts are complicated and often can’t be explicated without nuance. That process bores audiences and glazes people’s eyes. It’s much easier, and effective, to cast nuance aside and bundle every detail of a position into a simple one- or two-word mantra.Neither side of the political aisle is immune from this temptation, but it certainly seems as if the right has become more adept at employing it.
Similarly, the Affordable Care Act was repositioned by its enemies as a “government takeover” of healthcare and America’s health insurance companies, which were roundly detested by their customers before the ACA, were newly depicted as sources of healthcare policies that Americans loved and would hate to lose.
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