One of the toughest tension points in the incoming GOP trifecta could be the Republican identity crisis when it comes to food. A growing number of Republicans who for decades have been staunch allies of the corporations who create and market what we eat are starting to feel like it’s up to them to regulate what those corporations sell.
“It’s not a fad. It’s a growing trend. People are taking their own health into their own hands. They’re learning more about nutrition, educating themselves,” Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota told NOTUS. “And so my wife and my two daughters and their families, they are very into it. And they love Bob Kennedy. They love Robert Kennedy Jr.”
Days before the election, Howard Lutnick — who would go on to co-chair President-elect Trump’s transition team and become his pick for commerce secretary — told CNN that Kennedy had converted him into a vaccine-policy skeptic after a two-plus-hour conversation they had together. He also insisted then that Kennedy would not be put in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services.