BLASEK: GOP Support for Vaccine Mandates Is Collapsing

BLASEK: GOP Support for Vaccine Mandates Is Collapsing

For decades, vaccine mandates were treated as untouchable in American politics. Democrats and Republicans alike accepted them as a settled fact of life. But that bipartisan consensus has shattered. New polling makes it clear: Republican support for vaccine mandates — and even for vaccines themselves — is collapsing. And with good reason. According to a 2024 Gallup poll, 60 percent of Republicans now oppose government vaccine mandates for childre…