Kakistocracy or Course Correction? RFK Jr., the Medical Establishment, and the Battle Over American Health
“Kakistocracy” is an old and deliberately ugly word — from the Greek kakistos, “worst” — meaning government by the least qualified or most unprincipled. It has been thrown at many administrations, but rarely has it attached itself so persistently to a single cabinet department as it has to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services.