Politico October 18, 2025
Jeffrey Tucker, who elevated Covid contrarians now working for the health secretary, is building support for Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again agenda.
If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ends up finding the cause of autism, convincing parents vaccinating their kids is optional and turning conservatives into advocates of using government to combat chronic disease, he can thank Jeffrey Tucker.
In founding the Brownstone Institute, Tucker, a 61-year-old libertarian activist who brought leading opponents of Covid lockdowns into the health secretary’s orbit, has carved out a splinter faction that’s promoting Kennedy and his Make America Healthy Again movement from the right.
“MAHA is a genuinely new intellectual and political force,” Tucker told POLITICO in explaining why he’s joined Kennedy’s following. “They break...
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