The pandemic provided this entrée into politics for a kind of person where the combination of sort of the fear of the moment and the trauma of the moment and this sense that people's bodily autonomy was being violated in some ways by government incursion. There are people who reacted really badly to that, and it changed the dynamics of this conversation.
Polis pointed to issues like pharmaceutical reform, nutrition policy, and the use of pesticides. After facing backlash, Polis clarified that he was pro-vaccines, but it left me thinking: What might it look like to open the Democratic tent to vaccine-skeptical Americans, of which there are a growing number?
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