Who are the anti-vaxxers? Like liquorice.... All Sorts

A pleasant face of anti-vax: Kelly Brogan
Long-time Democrat, repeat guest on Oprah, 

There's a feeling "out there" that the anti-vaxxers are horrid right-wing people, Republicans and their ilk. The reality is that anti-vax is across the spectrum. They are, like the liquorice, Allsorts.

Take the "Disinformation Dozen" a report from an outfit called the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, that identifies 12 individuals, in the US, as being the prime proponents of anti-vax misinformation.

I've screenshot the list, and added the party affiliation. Note that at the top of the list is the long-time anti-vaxxer, prime Democrat, Robert Kennedy Jnr.  Most of the rest are Democrats. All are "alternative medicine" practitioners.

The "N" is where I'm not sure

Of course "disinformation" is disinformation, wherever it comes from. The reason I raise the party affiliation issue is that it's now assumed, in America, that if you're a Democrat you're fine and dandy and jabbed and if you're not you're a Republican and you're not jabbed and you're putting everyone at risk. That was pretty much the message of Joe Biden the other day.

But the fact is that vaccine hesitancy is across the board and the main proponents -- if you accept the CCDH report -- are mostly Democrats. A recent article in the left-wing The Atlantic the other day says the same in its Not Getting Vaccinated to Own Your Fellow Libs:

The anti-vax faction here has its roots in the left-libertarian politics of the Back to the Land movement, which flooded the area with the disaffected urban upper-middle class in the 1970s and ’80s. That influx of hippies and students, most of whom came from New York City, brought with it a political belief in naturopathy and a mistrust of institutional authority.