The fruit that they bear

 I don't think it's a far stretch from the kind of deranged hatred that MTG or the conspiracist lies RFK Jr spread about the CDC to this kind of hate.

After speaking with family members of the suspect, police are operating under the hypothesis he was either sick or believed he was sick and blamed the illness on the Covid-19 vaccine, a law enforcement official told CNN. 

 

The CDC, one of the world’s leading health agencies, is tasked with protecting the health of Americans. But it has come under fire during the second Trump administration as conspiracy theories continue to plague the vaccine credited with halting the spread of the global pandemic. 

The shooting occurred the same week US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – a longtime critic of Covid vaccinations, with a history of spreading vaccine misinformation – announced the cancellation of a half-billion dollars in investments in mRNA projects.

Before 2020 the CDC was a well respected institution across the political spectrum, but now as the Republican party becomes more and more Qanon-ified it's become the case that it has been added to their list of things that are a part of the grand conspiracy against them. If we had responsible Republican leaders, rather than insane ones, this needn't be the case. But we are rushing head first into a new dark age of unreason, where we destroy the institutions that protect us and help us.