How did a man who admitted he has brain damage from a worm and who has spent decades spreading deadly disinformation about the efficacy of modern medicine become the head of our nation’s health services?
RFK Jr. has done what we all knew he would do. On Tuesday, mass layoffs gutted HHS, threatening everything from the CDC to the FDA to programs like Meals on Wheels.
These are moves that will make Americans less safe and healthy. Our food will be more dangerous. Diseases we might have cured in the not-so-distant future will go under-researched for years. Loved ones will get sick and die. And medicine that should have been available will be stuck in an understaffed and underfunded regulatory pipeline.
Before this, he had already driven out some of HHS’s top scientists, who have warned about the damage his views on healthcare and medical research will do. Under his watch, measles has killed two Americans, and numerous children have been diagnosed with Vitamin A toxicity after their parents followed Kennedy’s recommendation that it be used as a treatment.
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He has argued that SSRIs, taken for depression and other mood disorders, are addictive and has suggested they’re responsible for mass shooting events in the U.S. He offers dangerous dietary advice and has expressed doubts over whether HIV leads to AIDS. Perhaps most bizarrely, he believes Wi-Fi is a source of toxicity, telling Joe Rogan: “Wi-Fi radiation opens up your blood-brain barrier and so all these toxins that are in your body can now go into your brain.”
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Perhaps that's what the worm is telling him.
And it’s here I want to turn to Nazi science. This is not as abrupt a transition as it might seem. Part of the madness of the Nazi regime was the imposition of their deranged and deadly scientific approaches on the whole population.
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Just as paranoia and irrationality now dominate America’s health science decisions, our economy is running not on rational self-interest but a kind of psychosis.
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We are now in the stage of Trumpism where economic decline and the loss of personal financial security are worthy sacrifices in the name of Donald’s grand, incoherent, vision.
The markets, however, have finally reacted with some genuine alarm to Trump’s sweeping protectionist agenda. The DOW dropped over 1,600 points in the twenty-four hours after Trump’s announcement. The NASDAQ has seen its biggest loss since the pandemic. CEOs and business [analysts] are pulling their hair out.
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The United States is self-immolating on the world stage, and it is doing so by destroying both its private and public sectors. [...] We are bleeding out from Washington, D.C. to rural Iowa.
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What is happening is that our reality is being remade before us in the image of an irrational, chaotic, despotic, and unscientific worldview.
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MAGA is a project of delusion, both personal and political, and it has absolutely unmoored American society.
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[W]e are now seeing sexual, ethnic, and religious minorities portrayed as degenerate by MAGA. So, too, is anyone who speaks up for the rights of such people or opposes Trump’s agenda.
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This is how you get a Minnesota legislator introducing a bill to define “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a mental illness. And because projection is a running theme of this essay, that legislator, Justin Eichorn, was arrested in mid-March for soliciting a minor.
That last detail should be shocking, but lately such news is all too common. We aren’t only witnessing an unspooling of our institutions and public decision making. We seem beset by a kind of generalized moral insanity—only its locus is the GOP.
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Too many assessments of this moment still underestimate the danger. And far too many commentators spent the preceding years tut-tutting those of us who dared to call Trump’s movement fascism, or who suggested he would run and win again, or who say now that he really is considering forcibly annexing another country.
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Will Trump attempt to have a third term in office as he has repeatedly stated he wants to do? “No,” people will say, “he can’t do that. That’s insane.”
Exactly. It's insane. HE's insane. MAGA is insane. The GOP is insane.
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