Last week, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) lost his Republican primary in his bid to serve a third term in the U.S. Senate.
The defeat carries political consequences for Cassidy. But it also carries a broader lesson about leadership, public health and political risk.
In early 2025, Cassidy, a physician as well as a senator, publicly wrestled with whether to support Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. He knew that his vote might be enough to reject Kennedy’s nomination. He expressed concerns about Kennedy’s long history of stoking vaccine skepticism and spreading misleading interpretations of
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