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The Assignment with Audie Cornish

Why Crunchy Conservatives Love RFK Jr.

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6844 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Raw milk, seed oil skepticism, and...coffee enemas? The rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the conservative “Make America Healthy Again” movement is reclaiming what it means to be ‘crunchy’ -- a term previously associated with health-conscious liberals. Audie talks with Kiera Butler, a Mother Jones senior editor and reporter deeply embedded in the world of the conservative right's wellness trends.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This week, I became one of the 24 million cases of flu this season. I'm also among the just 45% of adults who actually got the flu vaccine.

0:41.8

Now, the number of people getting the flu shot, never really recovered after the pandemic-era

0:46.9

COVID-vaccination fights. And over time, a funny thing happened. The food as medicine crowd,

0:54.0

the anti-big Pharma crowd,

0:56.2

the actually fluoride as a toxin crowd,

0:58.9

reached across the aisle to the anti-COVID mandate crowd,

1:03.5

the anti-Anthony Fauci crowd.

1:06.3

And in the middle of that political horseshoe

1:08.6

was Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and what would become the

1:12.4

Make America Healthy Again movement. And my advocacy have often disturbed the status quo, I ask

1:22.3

uncomfortable questions. And I'm not going to apologize for that. We have massive health problems in our countries

1:29.7

that we must face honestly. And the first thing I've done every morning for the past 20 years

1:35.7

is to pray to God that he would put me in a position where I can end the chronic disease epidemic

1:42.9

and protect our children.

1:45.0

While he may be its public face, the backbone of the movement is a virtual army of women known as crunchy moms.

1:55.0

I'm a crunchy mom. Of course I'm going to keep telling you that your Brit is not filtering out what they're saying it is.

1:59.0

We were never allowed to get fluorine treatment.

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