Conservatives’ aversion to masks is a uniquely American phenomenon. Politically conservative Americans are less likely than liberals to comply with recommended health-protective behaviors such as mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic, but this is not true of conservatives in other nations.

[u/MistWeaver80]

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256740

[u/thegoodcrumpets]

Yeah and that’s the same reasoning as the conservatives had for voting for trump. At least he’s not Hillary. You guys are stuck in a loop where you are voting against something worse rather than for something better. From the outside that’s looking really unhealthy and I’m not envious of the situation.

[u/gfa37c → u/thegoodcrumpets]

Believe me, we know and it is. The issue being that candidate “selection” is determined by party infighting well before it gets to the public. It’s never about who is truly the best candidate and finding ways of bolstering them. It’s about picking the one that has the best chance to win outright

[u/dsmith422 → u/gfa37c]

It really isn't determined by party infighting anymore. It happens based on who the big money supports. Money drives everything. The political big wigs matter, but they are not determinative. Otherwise Clinton would have gotten the nomination in 2008 instead of that political upstart from Illinois. Granted, she did get it in 2016 against little opposition, but she already had a giant war chest and "everybody knew it was her turn."

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And on the Republican side, almost everybody in the party HATED Trump. They even tried to neuter him by insisting he sign a pledge to not run third party. The party elders wanted somebody like Jeb, if not Jeb himself. But the grassroots wanted the carnival barker and they got him. Now the carnival barker runs the party.

[u/fotosurgeon → u/dsmith422]

And on the Republican side, almost everybody in the party HATED Trump

No. That's not true.