Why the Best HHS Secretary Ever Gets 96 Percent Negative Press

Must-See RFK Jr. Interview Explains It All

In a Heritage Foundation forum on Monday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explained without saying so why leftists hate him as they do. In laying out the accomplishments of his extraordinary first year, Kennedy attributed his success on several fronts to the man who selected him. Said Kennedy, “Trump understands the uses of power better than any president in history.”

For years, as Kennedy explained, he has been troubled by the inarguable deterioration in the health of Americans, children in particular. Said Kennedy, “I prayed God would put me in a place where I could fix this.” This concern inspired him to run for president and to accept Trump’s offer to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Kennedy, of course, was no ordinary Democrat. The son of a martyred senator and the nephew of a martyred president, Robert Jr. served as standard bearer of the party’s most hallowed family. Although there is very little ideological content in the work he has been doing—“We took the politics out of it,” said Kennedy—the party and the media extend him no grace.

TDS, of course, explains most of the contempt shown towards him. Had Kennedy done in a Democrat administration what he has been doing under Trump President Harris would have put his face on a stamp by now.

Also eating away at the shriveled soul of the party faithful is recognition of their own responsibility for Kennedy’s success. Had they made Kennedy the Democrat nominee in 2024, he would have won the election. Had they offered him the HHS post, Kamala would have won the election. Instead, they spurned him, and Trump stepped into the void. Sham religions hate apostates, and there is no faith more sham that one that would have Anthony Fauci as shaman-in-chief. .

Kennedy has embraced his apostasy. “It is a joy to work for him,” he said of the president. “He lets me do stuff I don’t think anyone else would let me do.” This freedom enabled Kennedy to choose his own department heads and cleanse the department of its institutional rot. “Trusting the experts is not a feature of democracy,” said Kennedy, adding, “or of science.”

On every front in his battle against the status quo, Kennedy credits Trump’s forceful intervention in securing victory. Being “the most business friendly” president in memory, Trump has gotten industry to see that there is as much profit to be made in producing “real food” as there is in producing the ultra-processed junk that has been bloating our youth.

A traditionalist, Kennedy deconstructed the sixty-year old food pyramid and put basics like whole milk, chicken, beef, salmon, and eggs back in their proper place. If HHS has a motto, it’s “Eat Real Food.” Wary of overreach, Kennedy promised, “We are not going to start a nanny state.” If people want to buy Fruit Loops, it is their body, their Loops.

Of more immediate political impact is the deal Trump negotiated with Big Pharma and the Europeans. The fact that Americans were paying much more for American produced drugs than were the Europeans bugged Trump even before he met Kennedy. He proved “very forceful” in persuading drug companies to lower the prices on domestic sales and strong-armed the Europeans into paying more. In a just world, this deal would be enough to win the midterms. It could be that potent an issue.

In his first term, as Kennedy explained, Trump got a bill passed requiring price transparency from health care providers and insurance companies. The Biden people never bothered enforcing it. Trump 47 is giving it teeth. In the near future consumers will be able to price shop just about all procedures health providers offer. Trump’s goal, said Kennedy, is to “make every American the CEO of their own health.”

To facilitate this goal, Kennedy has pulled the tech companies together to make medical records available on each individual’s cell phone and to bring AI to bear on diagnosing ailments and prescribing medicines, refinements already well underway. As an added bonus, HHS will eliminate the need for time-wasting “prior authorization” from insurance companies on most procedures.

“I can’t think of anyone else who could have gotten this done,” said Kennedy of Trump, calling their coming together “providential.” Their combined effort has impressed even Kennedy’s “very, very left-wing Democrat” son.

“Dad, I want to tell you how proud I am about this,” the young Kennedy told his father, specifically about the lowering of drug prices. “This is the best achievement that could happen to our country. This is something Bernie Sanders has been clamoring for for 25 years.”

The media does not share the young man’s enthusiasm. Rolling Stone summarized “the lowlights of the first year of RFK Jr’s MAHA agenda” with the quip, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed the nation’s health systems away from science and toward conspiracy-fueled quackery.”

The saying goes that if Trump cured cancer, the media would categorize malignant tumors as endangered species and scold Trump for eliminating them. As Kennedy has proved in just his first year, this is not really a joke.

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