The regressive progressives have devised a bold new strategy to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the midterms: rekindling COVID-era public outrage over the Trump administration’s alleged disrespect of The Science™.
Going from the generalized, abstract term “public health” to the specifics — and you’ll be shocked to learn this — the platform proposals, which purportedly have some tangential connection to actual public health, include:
- Restoring the legitimacy of medicalized child trannification through puberty blockers, genital mutilations, and other “gender-affirming” procedures
- Increasing abortion access
- More gun control
- Ending immigration enforcement
- “Preparing for the climate crisis and the next pandemic,” including by restoring vaccine mandates for kids in public school and renewed funding of gain-of-function research
- Rejoining the World Health Organization
- Taxing billionaires more
Via The Guardian (emphasis added):
As public health has become increasingly politicized in the US, with a particularly chaotic year under the Trump administration, some political candidates are pushing back by making public health a central part of their campaigns – and the grassroots organization Defend Public Health has ideas about how to do it.
On Monday, the group launched guiding principles for campaigns to prioritize public health, called the People’s Health Platform, highlighting the importance of ensuring healthcare for all, protecting and expanding sexual, reproductive, and gender-affirming healthcare, preparing for the climate crisis and the next pandemic, and taxing billionaires, among other tenets.
“Public health needs to be a higher priority,” said Richard Pan, a pediatrician who is running to represent California’s sixth congressional district.
I don’t think this dog is going to hunt.
The party rank-and-file might be able to mount some criticism of this ridiculous strategy that will appeal to no one not already firmly inside the tent and sure to vote Democrat no matter what, were it not for the fact that the DNC refuses to release autopsy results from the 2024 defeat, so that its own members can’t assess why the campaign failed so dramatically.
That’s called Democracy™.
Via Defend Public Health (emphasis added):
1) Guarantee healthcare for all. Immediately restore cuts in programs like Medicaid and move swiftly to create a healthcare system that truly covers everyone without cost getting in the way.
2) Put science back in public health. Restore scientific integrity to federal science institutions as well as funding for needed research while putting qualified professionals in charge.
3) Rebuild public health infrastructure. Rebuild, expand and reimagine public health infrastructure at all levels, emphasizing improved community engagement and accountability.
4) Protect and expand access to sexual, reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare. End political attacks on contraception, abortion, gender-affirming care and other forms of sexual and reproductive health care and protect access to this care.
5) Combat health inequity. Act to ensure all have an equal chance at good health, regardless of race, ethnicity, economic status, disability, rural residence, LGBTQ+ status, etc., and make sure health programs and research support such efforts
6) Make our communities healthier and safer. Because health isn’t just about medicine, implement policies ensuring access to the things required for a healthy life, like access to healthy food, clean air, and safe, sanitary housing.
7) Save our health by saving our planet. Recognize the dire threat pollution and climate change pose to life and health and restore and strengthen policies to promote clean air and renewable energy.
8) Prepare for the next pandemic. Because we know the next pandemic is coming, rebuild and strengthen the infrastructure to protect us from it.
9) Rejoin global efforts to protect the public’s health. Because we can’t go it alone in an interconnected world, rejoin the WHO and other international organizations and efforts to protect health.
10) Tax the billionaires to invest in our public health. Enact a fair tax system that makes the wealthy pay their fair share and get billionaires’ money out of politics so that we can finally make the investments we need.
Delusional, juicy excerpts from the full-length People’s Health Platform document:
Health isn’t just medicine; it depends on the state of our communities and access to the basics we need for a healthy life. We must ensure access to safe, sanitary housing, nutritious food, clean water, and safe places to exercise, work and play, and must address gun violence, making these efforts an urgent priority. We should celebrate the contributions our immigrant neighbors make to our communities, protect their health, and end unconstitutional immigration enforcement that endangers families and communities.
“Celebrating the contributions our immigrant neighbors make to our communities,” such as demanding more fraudulent money from the government.
Somali squatter attempts to extort Minnesota for money following "ICE crisis" pic.twitter.com/cjuDqpa2ud
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) February 23, 2026
Critical as well is protecting the “Latino/a/e/x” and numerous other marginalized alphabet communities:
Everyone in the U.S. should have the chance to survive and thrive. Today in this country, your life expectancy depends on your ZIP code, and systemic discrimination against Black, Indigenous, AANHPI, Latino/a/e/x, and other people of color, those with disabilities, and the LGBTQ+ population all contribute to substantial differences in health between groups of people.
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“The next pandemic is coming,” the document claims, which means it’s time to resume gain-of-function research so that we can hurry that whole project along.
Also, we’ve got to get back into the WHO and restore all of the cancelled globo-homo race communism projects (also serving as kickback schemes for Democrat insiders) under USAID:
The next pandemic is coming, and the infrastructure to protect us against it has been decimated in the U.S. We need to restore and strengthen these programs at our research and public health agencies. This includes removing the needless restrictions that strangle U.S. research on pandemic pathogens and vaccine development. Fund urgently-needed research and disease monitoring so that we’re ready for the next viruses or bacteria that threaten us…
The U.S. has left the World Health Organization and other international health bodies, which means we’re trying to go it alone against global health threats. It just won’t work, because viruses and bacteria don’t care about borders. Recognize that we can never be safe from preventable disease if the rest of the world isn’t safe and act accordingly: Rejoin the WHO and other worldwide organizations and efforts that protect lives and health and restore funding for global health programs under USAID. Restore foreign assistance that, before recent cuts, saved the lives and health of millions around the world. Establish a U.S. Department of Global Health Equity to strengthen our work with other nations and international organizations.
