Quote (Thor123422 @ Feb 9 2021 09:03am)
The thing is they fully embraced being the anti-intellectual party well before I ever started paying attention to politics. Republicans I've been the party of not teaching evolution, not accepting climate change, and now this. This is not a significant departure from their actions for at least 20 years.
I think this is an argument the left makes that minimizes how radicalized and fact-free the party has gotten since Trump took over. I'll concede the party has embraced a certain anti-intellectualism for quite a while... but it hasn't always been as bad as it is now.
We can't ignore the sort of reactionary contrarianism of a person like Tucker Carlson, who manages to be an apologist for COVID trutherism and QAnon. Bill O'Reilly wouldn't have pulled that shit.
This post was edited by IceMage on Feb 9 2021 08:39am