Why are health officials worried about RFK’s ‘MAHA’ moment?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent this week on Capitol Hill in
hopes of securing the necessary Senate votes to lead the
Department of Health and Human Services. As Kennedy’s “Make
America Healthy Again” platforms gain popularity, senators and
health experts raise concerns over Kennedy’s stances against
vaccines and certain public health policies. 


As President-elect Donald Trump continues to flesh out his second
term vision, immigration reform remains one of the biggest
policies on his agenda. Trump won historically Democratic
districts along the border and made large strides with Latino
voters in the last election. Recently on Meet the Press, Trump
expressed an openness to working across the aisle on deportations
and family separations. It’s a more common sense approach
compared to his rhetoric on the campaign trail. It’s also much
more in line with how voters feel about immigration. In an
article for The Atlantic, journalist Rogé Karma
attributed the Democrats’ loss to their miscalculations about the
Latino vote. Will Trump turn the electorate’s support for
immigration reform into actionable policy?


While Democrats continue to analyze their election missteps with
immigration, the Left, Right, and Center panel looks at how
progressive activism might have contributed to their loss. In his
essay “How Gay Marriage Ruined Democratic
Activism,” writer Jeremiah Johnson posits that Democrats
learned all the wrong lessons from progressives. How true is
that? Did moral absolutism cost Democrats the White House?