Exploiting a crisis: The travesty of Wisconsin’s election is a harbinger for the nation in November
As much as the denial of science is a hallmark of the Trump administration and the Republican Party, Wisconsin Republicans took things to a new level with their cynical decision to hold in-person voting in the midst of a deadly pandemic. State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos epitomized the sickening hypocrisy by showing up at his voting station in Burlington Wisconsin—a town of 10,000 people in southeastern part of the state—with his body draped in full protective gear as if he were ready to perform surgery. As my scientist wife, Dr. Michelle Holmes, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of...
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