Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is in a space I didn’t know existed. He’s turning out to not be unhinged enough to please the Make America Healthy Again crowd he nurtured with years of anti-vaccine nonsense and crackpot health theories. But at the same time, he’s acting too loony for the always-whackadoodle Trump administration.

What’s a longtime conspiracy theorist who guzzles raw milk and swims in sewage supposed to do? 

Kennedy is stuck between an army of MAHA loyalists and wellness influencers who specialize in mistakenly thinking they’re smarter than all of science and a president who very mistakenly thinks he’s smarter than everyone.

An explosion of measles made Trump and Co. rethink RFK Jr.'s high profile

The Wall Street Journal recently reported: “Aides close to President Trump decided to take a more active role in managing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department in the face of polling that shows his vaccine moves are unpopular.”

Turns out putting an anti-vaxxer in charge of........

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