I grew up reading The Economist, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come find the idea that corporations have the right to use their money to form trade associations and directly lobby the government insane. I can understand how business owners may want to spend personal money to make the case of their personal business interests to their legislators, but the idea of Nestle, S.A. and PepsiCo, Inc. being afforded speech rights and allowed to meddle in the “human affairs” of government no longer makes sense to me.

I am _very_ skeptical of the persons leading the MAHA movement or equivalent in other countries, and think they're mostly crooks or charismatic idiots, but it is a grassroot movement, with respectable fears and interrogations, and a legitimate belief that modern medicine is captured by the pharma/food big companies.

That's a bit sad that on this very point where the movement is actually correct, it will get blocked.

My bet is that MAHA will only be able to move/reform the US on subjects that aren't dangerous for the industries profits, which are every subject where they are actually wrong.