WASHINGTON

As he sat in the hot seat during a Senate hearing Thursday morning., Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recognized that he was in the center of a religious debate — on vaccines.

On one side were Finance Committee Democrats and a couple of Republicans who are staunchly pro-vaccine. (I support COVID-19 vaccines too. I just think the health care establishment ought to be a little more humble.)

On the other side were Republicans who loved Kennedy for resisting the establishment orthodoxy — or what Democrats refer to with their reverent voice as “The Science.”

As I watched the hearing, I felt as if I had gone back in time, to 2020, when there were two distinctly different ways of looking at COVID policy.

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