RFK’s alliance with Trump is no joke for American public health
While RFK is (like Trump) a farcical figure in many ways, he’s also a very serious anti-vaxx conspiracy theorist, and the fact that he could have real influence and power in an adminsitraiton that was already promising to make polito great again is very, very bad:
This is a good point. Trump embracing a strong pro-polio/tetanus platform here by trying to prevent schools from requiring kids from being vaccinated for standard diseases like normal people. Putting Bobby Jr in charge of your kids health is scary. https://t.co/lc2gecclxv— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 25, 2024
Trump repudiating the only good thing his administration did in increasingly radical terms is not only Trump but the Republican Party in 2024 in a nutshell.