RFK Jr., Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric, MAHA, and the New Eugenics

The promise of “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) sounds wholesome, even patriotic.

Yet under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership, the movement has become synonymous with vaccine resistance and mistrust of science.

What presents itself as a return to natural health is, in practice, a dismantling of the very systems — sanitation, immunization, and research — that lifted American life expectancy from under fifty years in 1900 to nearly eighty by the turn of the millennium.

Kennedy’s anti-vaccine rhetoric draws power from a broader cultural script. It casts illness as the outcome of personal choices, resilience as proof of virtue, and intervention as corruption of the natural order.

This naturalism, while appealing in its simplicity, masks a harsh arithmetic: those without strong immune defenses, reliable income, or access to care are left behind. It echoes the logic of eugenics and social Darwinism, where survival is a filter rather than a collective responsibility.

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