"'What we do know about RFK is the caricature he's caught in-this daily battle between people who think he's destroying science or people who think he's taking on the establishment,' Scherer said last night. Less known, however, is how 'he got from being at the edge of the Democratic Party' to becoming HHS secretary in the Trump administration. 'I think the answer is he's a fiercely determined person who is on a quest,' Scherer continued."
"Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the Atlantic staff writer Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America's public-health system. Scherer joined Washington Week With The Atlantic to discuss his story, and what the Health and Human Services secretary may be after. 'He has been able to plow through enormous obstacles and enormous detractors to really not lose faith in his own vision of what he's doing.'"
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. outlined plans to remake America's public-health system and has discussed those plans extensively in interviews with Michael Scherer. Observers split between viewing him as undermining science or challenging the establishment create a caricature that obscures his trajectory. He moved from the edge of the Democratic Party to HHS secretary in the Trump administration. He is portrayed as fiercely determined and on a quest, able to plow through enormous obstacles and detractors while maintaining faith in his vision. The episode brought together Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, Scherer, Dan Diamond, and Julie Rovner to discuss these developments.
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