"But what starts as a reasonable, even compelling, complaint about corruption quickly devolves into a mistrust of vaccines, health institutions and mainstream medical treatments. What further separates Maha from other health movements is its larger cultural and social critique: a belief that the ills of modernity its vaccines, artificial foods and environmental toxins are symptoms of a social and spiritual decay that must be countered with a health-conscious conservative lifestyle."
"Maha's clean anti-establishment message has gone on to attract a diverse coalition of concerned mothers, wellness influencers, conspiratorial hippies, culture warriors, health food CEOs, conservative social critics and alternative medicine practitioners. One of the movement's central architects is Calley Means, current special government employee at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and direct advisor to RFK Jr. A close friend of Kennedy's, he was the visionary who first connected RFK Jr to Trump after recognising a politically powerful overlap in their populist messages."
Make America Healthy Again (Maha) is a populist health movement centered on US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and an agenda blending public-health policy with conservative wellness ideals. RFK Jr has cancelled $500m of vaccine research, fired thousands of health agency workers and promoted an unsubstantiated link between Tylenol and autism. Maha claims Americans face a chronic disease epidemic fuelled by corrupt incentives in medical, food and pharmaceutical industries. The movement promotes mistrust of vaccines, health institutions and mainstream medical treatments. Maha frames modernity's vaccines, artificial foods and environmental toxins as symptoms of social and spiritual decay. The coalition includes mothers, wellness influencers, alternative-medicine practitioners and right-leaning media figures, with advisors such as Calley Means.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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