That’s Dr. Jeremy Faust’s take on Senator Bill Cassidy’s defeat in the Republican primary yesterday in Louisiana. It was Senator Cassidy’s craven vote for the imbecile Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services that enabled the imbecile’s war on public health. As Dr. Faust writes:

Cassidy will go down as a physician who chose personal politics over the health of millions of Americans, most notably children. In fact, few modern American physicians have done more damage to pediatric health with a single vote.

That’s tragic, because Cassidy actually favors vaccines. He was and is not stupid. His vote was simply corrupt. I actually think Cassidy’s legacy might be worse than Kennedy’s. When a bull runs through a china shop, you don’t blame the bull. You blame whoever let him in.