Opinion

Chris Wallace’s grilling of a GOP governor exposes a much bigger scam

When Chris Wallace grilled the Republican governor of Nebraska over his opposition to vaccine mandates on Sunday, the Fox News anchor did a fine job of exposing the incoherence of one GOP lawmaker’s positioning on the issue.

But this moment is bigger than that. Wallace also helped expose a larger scam that Republicans have been running in the vaccine debate for some time now. Indeed, they’ve employed a similar scam on electoral outcomes, too. So all this should be understood as a larger mode of political conduct that deserves broad scrutiny in its own right as a big story about this moment.