[FRIAM] Liberal "othering" or statement of fact?

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

So saith Paul Krugman: 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-supplements.
html  

Once you're sensitized to the link between snake oil and right-wing
politics, you realize that it's pervasive.

This is clearly true in the right's fever swamps. Alex Jones of Infowars has
built a following by pushing conspiracy theories, but he makes money by
selling nutritional supplements
<https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/how-does-alex-jones-make-money.html
> . It's also true, however, for more mainstream, establishment parts of the
right. For example, Ben Shapiro, considered an intellectual on the right,
hawks supplements.Look at who advertises
<https://tvrev.com/whos-still-advertising-with-tucker-carlson-at-the-end-of-
q2-2021/>  on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show. After Fox itself, the top
advertisers are My Pillow, then three supplement companies.Snake oil
peddlers, clearly, find consumers of right-wing news and punditry a valuable
market for their wares. So it shouldn't be surprising to find many
right-leaning Americans ready to see vaccination as a liberal plot and turn
to dubious alternatives - although, again, I didn't see livestock dewormer
coming.

 

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