The playbook Donald Trump and his allies are using to dismantle the United States and hand it over to the rich and powerful is, by now, clear. With their words, they’ll attack wokeness and censorship, while with their actions, they’ll aggressively push a turbocharged form of both. They’ll shake their first at the elites with one hand, and stuff cash and other favors into their pockets with the other. They’ll loudly claim to fight for the working class if it involves picking on groups they hate, but behind closed doors, they’ll work to strip workers of their rights and make them poorer.

Each time, the tactic is the same: distract Trump’s own base and the US public more generally by loudly proclaiming you’re fighting a bunch of terrible things, and while they’re looking the other way, do the very thing you’re pretending to fight.

We’re seeing this playbook used again when it comes to the vaunted Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda, led and devised by now–Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So far, Trump and his allies have focused overwhelmingly on clamping down on the wacky, nonexistent problems that RFK Jr rails against.