Is the Republican Party coordinating a top-down effort to soften the right's image going into the 2022 midterm elections? With more conservative media figures getting the vaccine in the last few weeks—like Rep. Steve Scalise and @The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro—and with an under-appreciated possoble $4 trillion Infrastructure packages on the way, Sam Seder seems to think so. @Nomiki Konst has a more 'conspiratorial' take.
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Sam Seder: There does seem to be some sense on the right that like, "Hey we're losing here. We're losing on the vaccine side and the covid-19 side." I mean and i think the hint is that this is coming from the Republican Party itself; Steve Scalise goes out and gets vaccinated, you know a week and a half ago. I mean that seems a little bit late buddy, but he goes and gets vaccinated, makes a big deal of it—or at least he claims that he gets vaccinated. Maybe he got vaccinated a long time ago and it's just it's time for me to deploy it, who knows but the the point being there does seem to be an effort. Ben Shapiro did the same thing.
And maybe it's even that they're a little bit worried that the infrastructure bill is gonna go through. Spending four trillion dollars is a big deal and i don't think that there's broad appreciation generally amongst the population of like the implications of that type of bill this is going to be a big bill a lot of people are going to get a lot of like material benefit. It's going to improve a lot of people's lives uh and you know i'm not saying it's the end-all be-all. Obviously i would like um you know my big golden chalice would be you know to decommodify uh healthcare but um this is gonna have a lot of impact on people universal pre-k free community college option uh universal day care i mean there's going to be a lot of benefits paid leave and extension of the child tax credit.
I'm not convinced that you know part of this whole sort of like depolarization is just a you know this is a some type of like we need to sort of soften our image going into 2022. I think on some level um that that's my sense.
Nomiki Konst: I might be like a little conspiratorial. Do you think that that it's it's maybe perhaps with redistricting who knows what's gonna happen with redistributing but it's like so tight that they're actually worried some people might die that actually might flip some districts where they might lose whatever potential path to a majority they might have i i is that a little no i just don't think that's what it is i think it's more. I gotta think that it's more a function of they are nervous that there are maybe in swing distance districts there are people that they thought would come home to the republican party and those people are sort of still seeing like this feels too Trumpy to me uh with the whole vaccine i feel like the Trumpism might be smaller than we think it is extremely they're much louder but it is much when it's not a general election trump trump can't carry midterms in other words i just wonder how much this is connecting i mean McConnell the reason McConnell is they want the economy to get back on track i i do think that but i mean you you're not think that's the you think that you think they want it to tank for Biden
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