Republicans Are Killing Their Voters.

They’ve told their base not to trust the vaccine, and people are still dying as a result.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readJan 16, 2023
Photo by Chad Stembridge on Unsplash

When it comes to the covid-19 pandemic, part of me feels as though the last few years have been a blur. It’s hard to believe that nearly three years ago, we were all told to just stay at home for a couple of weeks and binge watched Love is Blind and Tiger King. I’m not sure many of us were able to fully wrap their minds around was in store for us in the coming weeks, months, and years. Of course, that’s thanks in large part to the complete, total failure of the federal government to respond adequately.

While there is a laundry list of problems with the way the Democrats have begun to minimize the pandemic since vaccination became available, there’s absolutely no denying that we’ve reached the point where we can conclude that Republicans are killing their voters.

In an article that has once again been making the rounds online, Matthew Gault with Vice writes:

“COVID-19 is killing more Republicans than Democrats, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The study, titled Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the COVID-19 Pandemic, used voter registration and death records to answer a question: is there a link…

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Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx