Two weeks after right-wing conspiracy theorist and Trump’s Rasputin Laura Loomer seemingly orchestrated his ouster, Vinay Prasad is back as the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator.

In a different world, it would be a cause for celebration that the Trump administration realized it is extremely weird to fire a health professional based on the views of a random bigot with no actual role in government. But we live in this world, and while it’s great to see Loomer fail, getting Prasad back at the FDA is not exactly great either.

In Loomer’s conspiracy-addled brain, Prasad is a “Trump-hating Bernie Bro” who was undermining President Donald Trump. In the real world, Prasad was the guy who overrode FDA experts to sign on to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy J

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