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Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Is Tearing the MAHA Movement Apart
Casey Means isn't currently licensed as a doctor. But that’s not why anti-vaxxers and conspiracists think she’s unsuited to be surgeon general—to them, her anti-vaccine opinions aren't extreme enough.
Conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, meanwhile, who has enough influence in the White House to get credit for a recent purge of national security staff, called for the nomination to be revoked, citing what she says is evidence that Means had been vaccinated against COVID-19 as proof of her unfitness. The backlash is the latest in a series of criticisms of the way Kennedy is implementing his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda, with people who have in the past been his most vocal supporters now questioning whether he has become part of the establishment. In response, fellow anti-vaccine activist Naomi Wolf, who has compared the COVID-19 vaccine to mass murder, hit back, writing that she was not a bot and that Means was “bad news” and her nomination had all the hallmarks of a “Silicon Valley astroturf” campaign.
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