When Donald Trump took the stage in Florida at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday to deliver a victory statement, he promised his assembled supporters “America’s golden age” upon his return to the White House. You might be surprised by the number of white women with babies on their hips, front cameras trained on their high cheekbones, nodding along to it on their social media accounts — but only if you’re not familiar with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Make America Healthy Again, MAHA for short, a “health plan” tailored to appeal to those who proudly proclaim themselves freelance moms and bosses. Hey girl, we’re gonna make America healthy again!

“We are the party of common sense,” Trump said in that speech. And that common sense apparently means letting Kennedy, his former Republican Party rival, “go roughshod” with the nation’s health policies. Kennedy, year anti-vaxxer in evidence, he boasted of his the brain being partially eaten by a worm that left him with both short-term and long-term memory loss, among other cognitive effects—and that he would eat five more and still be cold “with a handicap of six worms.”

“He’s going to help make America whole again,” Trump said of Kennedy, the man he recently accused in May of being a Undercover Democrat in common with the President Joe Biden to fulfill a radical leftist agenda. “He’s a great guy and he really wants to do some things, and we’ll let him go at it.” During his time rally at Madison Square GardenTrump teased the news of this new health czar, saying, “I’m going to let him run wild on health. I’ll let him run wild with the food. I’m going to let him run wild with meds.”

Right-leaning social media influencers love it Jessica Reed Krauswho post endless typo-ridden Instagram stories under the control of @houseinhabit, and their merry bands of wine moms and girl bosses have been waiting a long time for this moment: Validation that they, too, can “go wild on meds,” no matter how many lives which endangers them. Should Kennedy be appointed to this unnamed senior public health role (both he and Trump have struggled over what the position would actually be, but Kennedy appears to be participating in the time-honored far-right tradition of (saying something completely insane multiple times and hoping that makes it true, until he changes it), his intention is to dismantle and privatize the foundations of public health initiatives.

When Kennedy dropped his presidential campaign and threw his support behind Trump, he launched his the MAHA initiative, rebranding himself as both Trump Guy and Health Guy in one fell swoop.

right associated PAC websitewhich sell branded hats (this party adore a hat), the key to health lies in the “freedom of health” and the “removal of harmful toxins from food, water and air”.

IN A interview with NPRKennedy said that on the first day of Trump’s second administration, he would recommend removing fluoride from drinking water. “Now we have fluoride in toothpaste,” he said, conveniently flipping people who might not have access to toothpaste, even as he later showed remarkable flexibility by bending over backwards to rationalize Republicans as “the party of poor Americans.”

Left unsaid in that interview: his past statements (plural) that chemicals in tap water are turning children gay and trans. Lately, his talking points have been based more on his also-false beliefs that fluoride causes arthritis, bone fractures, and bone cancer. Kennedy would like to handle medical research in this mystical role because, you see, he made his own.

While speaking to NPR, Kennedy also said he would work “immediately” on changes to vaccine regulations and research, bluntly explaining, “We’re not going to take away anybody’s vaccines. We’re going to make sure Americans have good information right now. The science around vaccine safety, in particular, has huge gaps, and we’re going to make sure that those scientific studies are done and that people can make informed choices about their vaccinations and their children’s vaccinations.”

Here Kennedy links to all those down-to-earth moms and health influencers who “did their own research” and “made the right choice for their families”: saying she won’t “take the vaccines” doesn’t mean politics can’t. makes them much harder to obtain. And by loosening childhood vaccination requirements, leading to lower adoption rates, vaccines become less effective at preventing unnecessary disease and death. That research that Kennedy and the influencers did apparently did not include reading herd immunity and the role that individual responsibility plays in community well-being.