by Jeff Childers
The LA Times ran an unintentionally revealing op-ed late last week headlined, “Why Trump and RFK Jr. won’t ‘make America healthy again.’” Corporate media is struggling to deal with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has been making the interview rounds describing his plan to Make America Healthy Again. The problem for the media is that Kennedy is getting traction. For instance, in this fascinating clip, Kennedy described how the various federal agencies could be reformed through executive action without needing Congress.
CLIP: Robert Kennedy describes agency reform plan (1:36).
A couple bigger points emerge. Obviously, the immediate political significance for the upcoming election is how Kennedy is drawing disaffected Democrats to the Trump campaign. Since Harris isn’t talking about health reform at all, it’s a wide-open field for Trump.
But that’s not nearly all.
Perhaps even more critical is how the health issues are being mainstreamed. Some political genius obviously devised a plan for Kennedy to pivot from vaccines to food integrity. It’s working astonishingly well. It’s given Kennedy a kind of instant credibility. Nobody’s calling him a kook now. The best they can do is desperately try to ignore the former independent candidate.
Ignoring Kennedy is best. It’s nearly impossible to argue against MAHA. Even the LA Times’ anti-Kennedy op-ed was forced to admit that Kennedy main premise is right.
Even though the op-ed’s author, Christopher Cook, tried to obfuscate by spreading the blame around, Kennedy is the only candidate talking about what could be the single most important issue for the country. What could be more important than our own health and the health of our kids?
The op-ed was repeatedly forced to concede Kennedy’s main points. It even had to admit Democrats’ culpability in poisoning the nation:
Cook’s complaints about Trump’s liability were silly and generic, ranging from Trump not taking covid seriously enough, his requiring regulations to be rolled back, and failing to “drain the swamp.” (At least that argument tacitly admits the swamp is a big part of the problem.)
MAHA has legs. Kennedy is mainstreaming MAHA. The mainstreaming of MAHA is a massively encouraging development.
RFKjr has been right about things like the covid jab.
Look how birth rates have fallen off a cliff in places where these jabs were pushed.
Look how the only part of earth where ivermectin is commonly used has still got high birth rates.
Ironic that the latest lie about ivermectin is that it harms fertility, huh?
I have been cooking from scratch (or close to it) for decades.
Back when I was in So Cal I would constantly see sickly children sucking on over processed snacks given to them by parents on WICs and SNAP.
We really would be better off with the olden days version of food supplemental welfare when actual food was handed out.
I recall helping a lady unpack her monthly gov’t food.
A BIG block of “gov’t cheese,” plus cornmeal, flour, sugar, tinned ham, tinned beef, whole cooked chicken in a can, powdered eggs, powdered whole milk, and lots of other stuff.
It even came with meal plans for making it last the whole month.