The Biden administration’s shift from denying to imposing a vaccine mandate may be a historic blunder with profound consequences. Done in haste, it jeopardizes the stratospheric levels of support for Democrats among African Americans.
In the wake of the shameful surrender of Afghanistan, a vaccination mandate might have seemed the perfect vehicle to divert attention to a new subject and assert tribal loyalties against stereotypes of Republicans and Trump fans. Biden’s controllers apparently concluded that demonization of the vaccine-hesitant would work to drive support its way because (in their minds) it is mainly deplorable Trump-supporters who are reluctant.
