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 children. Only about one-quarter say it is “extremely important” for parents to get their children vaccinated. Among Democrats, the picture is the opposite: six in 10 call childhood vaccination “extremely important,” and a majority continue to back mandates. The two parties began to diverge even before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the gap widened dramatical

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