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@brecht @bastianallgeier "professional" politicians in general tend to be very anti-science. Science consistently proves their pet policies – from trickle down economics to increased policing, killing the welfare state, etc. – are counterproductive, so it seems to be an unwritten requirement for politicians to be anti-science.

I said years back that COVID could have been an unprecedented chance for Trump. He could have campaigned heavily on "I, the good American, and our good old American know-how, will protect you from the filthy China virus and keep our country safe".

But the price would have been acknowleding that scientists were right about COVID, and that price was too high.

Discrediting science and spreading the idea that scientific findings are just another opinion that can be ignored is a key project across virtually all political parties. Germany's Die Linke did it when it embraced the anti-trans moral panic, the SPD for their anti-welfare and anti-labour policies, the FDP did it to continue their "tax gifts to the rich" course even before they started catering to nazi voters, the CDU does it for just about everything they do.

Even the Greens do it to justify their heavy pro-policing stance. And the fact they keep acting as if politics is a genuine contest between people who want the best for the country and engage the AfD nazis as if they're serious shows they believe it, too, and aren't just eschewing political science to further their careers.