Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Is Tearing the MAHA Movement Apart
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Summary
Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Casey Means, is under fire from parts of the anti-vaccination lobby and the far-right.
Ostensibly, the anti-vaccine activists are angry because they believe that Means is not extreme enough in her views.
However, the real reason appears to be that they believe that Trump’s Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, is not implementing the policies that they believe he should be.
Kennedy has previously been a prominent leader in the anti-vaccine movement.
Means clearly has support from parts of the “MAHA” movement, with figures celebrating Trump’s nomination.
The specific complaints against Means are that she is not currently licensed as a doctor, failed to finish her surgical residency, and has voiced anti-vaccine opinions and embraced unproven alternative medicine.
