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by neel_k 2167 days ago
Nowadays anti-vaccinantion is substantially a marker for being on the right, since Donald Trump ran for president while making anti-vaccination claims. This tremendously increased the popularity of antivax ideas on the right.

See "Donald Trump and vaccination: The effect of political identity, conspiracist ideation and presidential tweets on vaccine hesitancy" in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221...