Charlie Kolean complained in a Jan. 29 Newsmax column:
Remember when Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) stormed onto the American scene promising to blow the doors off the rotten institutions which have held our nation hostage for decades?
When it vowed to take on the FDA, Big Pharma, the corrupt bureaucrats, the fake experts, and every last swamp creature standing between the American people and the truth?
MAHA was supposed to be the movement that saved American health — not another slogan, not another committee, not another round of bureaucratic excuses.
It was supposed to be a revolution.
What happened?
You mean besides conspiracy theorists taking over MAHA and reducing it to a joke? Kolean ignores that and complains further:
MAHA told America it would deliver accountability.
Instead, we got an ethics scandal involving George Tidmarsh — a man who allegedly used his FDA post to chase a personal vendetta.
That’s exactly the kind of Washington nonsense MAHA was supposed to eliminate.
Now the agency is burning credibility faster than it is approving medications.
MAHA promised to rebuild public confidence in health agencies.
Instead, we’ve seen the FDA lose more than 1,000 staff in a single year, while the remaining workers are caught in turf wars between drug regulators and biologics regulators.
Did Kolean somehow miss how DOGE fired a lot of government employees? It appears so. He went on to whine:
People were ready for:
—Transparency.
—Honesty.
—For a clean break from decades of political rot.
But movements don’t survive on promises — they survive on performance.
And right now, the performance doesn’t match the promise.
The question now isn’t whether America needs MAHA.
It absolutely does.
The question is whether MAHA still remembers what it came here to do.
Will Kolean admit that the purported “poiltical rot” didn’t actually exist to the extent he claims?