{"id":18306,"date":"2025-06-23T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18306"},"modified":"2025-06-23T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T21:33:22","slug":"michelle-obama-was-vilified-by-the-right-then-came-maha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18306","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama Was Vilified by the Right. Then Came MAHA."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Anyone following the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s Make America Healthy Again movement can\u2019t help but recall former First Lady Michelle Obama\u2019s efforts to improve Americans\u2019 diets \u2014 and the vitriol she faced in response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, many of the same Republicans who skewered Michelle Obama as a \u201cnanny state\u201d warrior have embraced the MAHA movement.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Kass said he was happy to find common ground with Kennedy and his MAHA brigade where possible. But he argued Kennedy\u2019s HHS has done little to actually improve the health of the public so far, and was instead mostly taking steps that would do real damage, including by undermining the use of vaccines.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/06\/14\/michelle-obama-nutrition-adviser-maha-interview-00405018\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/06\/14\/michelle-obama-nutrition-adviser-maha-interview-00405018<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Anyone following the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s Make America Healthy Again movement can\u2019t help but recall former First Lady Michelle Obama\u2019s efforts to improve Americans\u2019 diets \u2014 and the vitriol she faced in response.<\/p>\n<p>Now, many of the same Republicans who skewered Michelle Obama as a \u201cnanny state\u201d warrior have embraced the MAHA movement.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Kass said he was happy to find common ground with Kennedy and his MAHA brigade where possible. But he argued Kennedy\u2019s HHS has done little to actually improve the health of the public so far, and was instead mostly taking steps that would do real damage, including by undermining the use of vaccines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/06\/14\/michelle-obama-nutrition-adviser-maha-interview-00405018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[81,556,2089,526,925,410],"class_list":["post-18306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-health","tag-obama","tag-rfk","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccine","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18307,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions\/18307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}