"The ascent of MAHA-the Trump administration's movement to "Make America Healthy Again"-is part of a broader health revolution in the United States, one that venerates the past in order to carve out a purportedly healthier future. It has had mixed results; some MAHA tenets have little basis in medical literature (researchers pushed back on the White House's announcement this week that Tylenol use during pregnancy could be linked to autism)."
"When you think of conservatism, you're thinking basically of someone who wants to conserve. William F. Buckley Jr. said the conservative disposition "stands athwart history, yelling Stop." I think that helps explain why RFK Jr., who was a lifelong liberal, wound up on the conservative side of things. He, like a lot of conservatives, feels that the answer to human health and happiness lies somewhere in the past. It's a kind of nostalgia that drives what he's doing."
The ascent of MAHA—the Trump administration's movement to 'Make America Healthy Again'—is part of a broader health revolution in the United States that venerates the past to claim a healthier future. MAHA has produced mixed results; some tenets lack firm medical evidence, as researchers pushed back on a White House announcement linking Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. combines a conservative nostalgia that looks to past practices as the source of health and happiness. Vaccine skepticism migrated from left-leaning 'back to the earth' holistic communities to a bipartisan movement and then surged after the COVID pandemic.
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