Republicans are still pretty new to the anti-vax ecosystem. Sure, decades ago there were some religious fundamentalists who denied vaccines, but when progressive states like California, Washington, and Oregon led the nation by far - the California coast actually had more arbitrary school kid exemptions than the entire US combined - more conservative states like Mississippi and Alabama had vaccines for kids at nearly 100 percent.

That has changed now, but from the 1990s, when Woomeister In Chief Bill Clinton was throwing siphoning money from science budgets to throw at alternatives to medicine, creating an Organic exemption from pesticide disclosures inside USDA, and putting his name on a law exempting supplements from real FDA oversight, until 2021, progressives ruled the anti-science movement.(1)

Republicans can't really claim leadership in the anti-vax movement until they have an Andrew Wakefield. Or at least a Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, who said the MMR vaccine caused autism, and that he could cure it by injecting mice with measles, removing their white blood cells, putting those in goats, milking the goats, then turning the goat milk into capsules for wealthy elites to buy for their autistic kids.



Yes, by and for the same people who think GMOs cause cancer.

To them, that was science, he tried to get a patent.  Naturally he had been adored at the wacky University of California San Francisco, home of the anti-GMO corporate conspiracy movement, and was made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), much like John Holdren of "Ecoscience" fame, who advocated a world government to force sterilization on people - before running science for the Obama administration.


Fudenberg  was denied the patent, his medical license was revoked, and progressives insisted it was because Big Pharma was in charge of regulatory agencies. So at least Republicans have taken up that conspiracy theory. 

NOTE:

(1) But what about stem cells? Evil George Bush! Ummm, human embryonic stem cells were created outside federal funding because Clinton banned federal funding for them. Bush was the first to fund them, he limited them to existing lines because it was unclear how they could be managed without violating Clinton's law banning 'experimentation' on embryos. President Obama promised to "lift the ban" that never existed, but only added three more lines allowed.