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  • Trump Wants to Shake Up Health Care. Many Americans Don’t Mind

    12/02/2024 11:42:57 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 9 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Dec. 2, 2024Updated 9:46 a.m. ET | Jack Healy, Isabelle Taft, Kate Selig
    As a nature-loving physical therapist in Boulder, Colo., Colin O’Banion shops at farmers markets, grows organic squash in his backyard and thought he could never vote for Donald J. Trump.But during the pandemic, he said, he and his wife became social outcasts when they refused Covid-19 vaccines for themselves and their three sons. Tuning in to alternative health podcasts, he became convinced that the country’s public health establishment was corrupt, and that the only antidote was the upheaval being promised by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he teamed up with Mr. Trump. “That’s what brought me on board,” Mr. O’Banion,...
  • Trump’s Cabinet Picks, Panned in Washington, Thrill Many of His Voters

    11/16/2024 6:06:10 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 27 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Nov. 16, 2024Updated 5:16 p.m. ET | Michael Corkery, Isabelle Taft and Shawn Hubler
    To his detractors, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet looks like a rogues’ gallery of people with dubious credentials and questionable judgment. His supporters see something different. “It’s a masterpiece,’’ Eileen Margolis, 58, who lives in Weston, Fla., and owns a tattoo business, said of Mr. Trump’s cabinet picks unveiled over the past week. “If it was a painting, it would be a Picasso.” A “brilliant alliance,’’ is how Joanne Warwick, 60, a former Democrat from Detroit, described many of the nominees. “It’s pretty much a star cast,’’ said Judy Kanoui of Flat Rock, N.C., a retiree and lifelong Democrat who...