Could RFK Jr. prove to be the Trump administration’s secret weapon?

Recent polling shows Americans trust Republicans over Democrats on nearly every major issue confronting our country: the economy, immigration, foreign policy and inflation. The two areas where Democrats hold the upper hand is health care and vaccines.

RFK Jr. has a shot of undermining that advantage, especially with young voters.

Although the Health and Human Services secretary has been relentlessly blasted by the liberal media for being “anti-vaccine” (which Kennedy denies), a great many Americans like Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again agenda and agree that corporate interests are helping to make Americans sick and overly reliant on pharmaceuticals.

A poll conducted by NBC News last month (in which Trump earned only a 45 percent job approval) showed that a majority of the country (51 percent) liked what RFK is doing, whereas only 48 percent disapproved. Interestingly, when asked who was to blame for America’s chronic health problems, including obesity and heart disease, a plurality of respondents blamed the food industry.

Much of RFK’s agenda makes sense. A New York Times author last fall set out to debunk five of Kennedy's main claims about the nation’s health, but ended up supporting three of them. For example, she concluded that “many public health and nutrition experts agree” with his assertion that “Ultraprocessed foods are driving the obesity epidemic, and they should be removed from school lunches.”  

On the subject of food dyes, which the HHS secretary says “cause cancer, and ADHD in children,” she wrote, “some small clinical trials have suggested that certain synthetic

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