The MAHA Movement Has a New Misunderstood Hero: Elizabeth Holmes

The Make America Healthy Again movement—which claims it wants to rescue Americans from the evil clutches of poisonous, self-interested corporations—would appear to have quite questionable taste in heroes. The movement’s figurehead, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., obviously springs to mind, but lately, there’s another figure who seems to be gaining traction with MAHA: disgraced founder of Theranos (arguably a very self-interested corporation), Elizabeth Holmes.

Politico notes that the MAHA movement is glomming onto the convicted fraudster and questioning whether she was unfairly crucified by the justice system. Most notably, MAHA-influencer Jessica Reed Kraus recently wrote an article on her Substack entitled “Elizabeth Holmes’ Redemption Arc Loading.” Kraus writes:

Many still think of Therano