‘I’m all for masks’
Posted on AllSides July 2nd, 2020
From The Left
TRUMP MASKS UP — One of the relatively clear findings of political science is that when members of a party are confronted with a new policy question, they will look to trusted ideological leaders for cues about what the “right” position is.
Consider the politics of masks.
When the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic was understood in March, it was mostly people on the left who decried the use of masks. Liberals argued that the science behind preventing the spread of the disease through mask-wearing was thin or, alternatively, that...