Rachel Roubein: American parents want to make American children healthy again

While American parents overwhelmingly back cracking down on highly processed foods, dyes and added sugars in food, about 4 in 10 support the “Make America Healthy Again” movement that targets them, a Washington Post-KFF poll finds.

The poll of parents this summer found broad bipartisan support for much of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s concerns about the food supply. But support for the MAHA movement he started skews along partisan lines, with Republican parents far more likely to identify with the cause.

The MAHA movement merges Kennedy’s rhetoric of bashing corporate interests — language typical of the left — with the Trumpian MAGA branding. The movement, focused on chronic diseases and childhood illness, has multiple factions, including those pushing for h