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Did Trump accidentally do something woke for global health?

Vox·Sara Herschander·about 2 months ago
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The Trump administration has negotiated dozens of bilateral health deals with African governments, which will receive billions of dollars that they can spend as they see fit. | Allison Robbert/AFP via Getty Images A surprising quirk of the Trump administration is that every so often, it tries so hard to be anti-woke that it accidentally does something woke .  See, for example, the efforts of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who oversaw USAID’s demise — directives that have contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people — and who stood at the White House beside the president of Kenya a few months ago, railing against what he called the “ NGO industrial complex .” Now, I don’t know who taught Rubio that progressive catchphrase, but I doubt that he got it from INCITE! , the radical feminist collective that popularized a variation of the term in an anthology that examined the role of nonprofits in undermining social progress.…

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