How do you enforce a mandate when a significant percentage of the population opposes it? That’s the question President Joe Biden faces as he rolls out his new plan to mandate the vaccination of all federal employees, along with a new emergency rule that will compel all private companies with 100 or more employees to require that their employees be vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID-19 tests.
A majority of U.S. adults support the idea of requiring employees to be vaccinated — as we have previously reported — but it is by no means a supermajority. …
Biden has to deal not only with the fact that many of those opposed are Republicans and therefore disinclined to support any policy he puts forth, but also with underlying belief structures that embody opposition to government intrusion and intervention in general and that embody skepticism about the work of elite scientists and educators. CONTINUED
Frank Newport, Gallup
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