RFK Jr's mad experiment will upend America’s approach to healthcare
That said, the US health secretary's experiment in search of a methodology is very American.
It’s a measure of the normalisation that the elevation of Robert F Kennedy Jr to Secretary of Health and Human Services was quickly lost last week amid all the headlines emerging from the White House. It’s an indicator of how the outrageous has become merely “rageous” that Kennedy’s confirmation became a footnote to a series of perceived scandals and crises; what Elon Musk’s son might have said to Trump, what Not-Quite-President Musk did say to the press, and what the actual President might have told Vladimir Putin about Ukraine… NATO… Canada… Greenland… Paper drinking straws!
Largely overlooked, too, was the “nay” vote cast on the Republican side of the Senate. Mitch McConnell found his conscience on the precipice of retirement. “[A] record of trafficking in dangerous conspiracy theories and eroding trust in public health institutions does not entitle Mr. Kennedy to lead these important efforts,” he said. The statement sounded like that of a broken man who realises that history will look poorly on Addison Mitchell McConnell III. He had assumed that Trumpism was defeated in 2020. As it now stands, the Trump Revolution risks running beyond the control of even Congress.