Alexandra Hunt. Image courtesy of Alexandra Hunt.com.
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Public Health Policy Reviews will list, review, and analyze former US President Donald J. Trump’s policies and executive orders and the impact of the “MAGA” (Make America Great Again) agenda on public health in America from 2016 through 2021.
A new YouTube “video-log” (vlog) series called “The Politics of Sex” by Alexandra M. Hunt inspired this brand-new politically independent Substack blog. Alexandra Hunt is advertising The Politics of Sex as “a thought-provoking series that delves into the intersection of intimate relationships and the corridors of power.”
Ms. Hunt is a politically left-wing feminist community activist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She ran for US Congress in Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional district during the 2022 American midterm elections.
Hunt is a public health researcher who gained notoriety during the 2021-2022 Democratic party primary in Pennsylvania for her unabashed embrace of a history of working as a stripper while attending college. Ms. Hunt also started a page on “OnlyFans,” a social media platform where many participants work in the sex industry.
Alexandra Hunt began her OnlyFans page after receiving national backlash from mainstream media outlets like the New York Post and Fox News for her time dancing in strip clubs. Ms. Hunt said her work as a public health researcher inspired her to challenge the establishment of the Democratic Party in 2021. Referring primarily to the two (2) years of the COVID–19 crisis, Hunt said that “the lack of crisis response and resources from the government” (during the onset of the pandemic) inspired her to run for office.
“I come into the political space as a reluctant participant … but I know that in order to change [the system], we have to get involved to push it in other directions,” continued Hunt.
Hunt lost her 2022 primary challenge to incumbent Democratic party Congressman Dwight Evans by a landslide, 76% to 20%. In 2023, She lost another Democratic party primary challenge for Philadelphia city comptroller.
Public Health Policy Reviews believes the percentage of White women voters supporting either former President Trump or current President Joseph R. Biden in November will decide the 2024 American presidential election between the two candidates.
Alexandra Hunt campaigning in 2022. Image courtesy of Alexandra Hunt.com.
According to the Pew Research Center, Donald Trump won 47% of the White female vote during his historic 2016 American Presidential victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton only garnered 45% of White female voters in 2016. Despite Mr. Trump’s contentious loss to former Vice President Biden in 2020, available data reveals that Trump increased his percentage of White female voters up to 53%. Moreover, Donald Trump has remained popular amongst the White women in his MAGA voter base despite his primary role in the US Supreme Court’s repeal of Roe v. Wade [410 US 113 (1973)] in June of 2022.
US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito referenced 17th-century English common law to write the opinion overturning the federal right of women and girls to access abortion care. Justice Alito, fellow Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas, and right-wing populist politicians like Donald Trump openly admit their intentions to transform America into a Christian theocratic regime eventually.
Led by Mr. Trump, the national Republican Party (GOP) and right-wing Christian religious extremists are now advocating for rolling back even more civil rights and civil liberties from women, the LGBTQIA+ community, African Americans, and other ethnic minorities in the US.
In addition to relentless national and statewide attacks on voting rights, immigrant rights, and civil liberties from the GOP – the Arizona Supreme Court recently ruled that a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban “on the books” in the state is enforceable.
Much like Justice Alito’s opinion in 2022, the Arizona ruling allows the archaic 1864 law – codified in 1901 and again in 1913 – to outlaw abortion from the moment of conception. The Civil War-era law made abortion a felony punishable by two to five years in prison for anyone who performs one or helps a woman obtain one.
Arizona never repealed the law, and an appellate court ruled last year that it could remain a statute even though it was enacted fifty (50) years before gaining statehood. The Arizona Supreme Court effectively banned abortion care – adding the “Grand Canyon State” to a growing list of US provinces restricting reproductive rights.
Alexandra Hunt campaigning in 2022. Image courtesy of Alexandra Hunt.com.
After the April 9th, 2024, Arizona Supreme Court decision – the only exceptions allowed are emergency procedures to save women’s lives in certain circumstances.
In addition to starkly frightening rises in incidents of antisemitism and racism in America since 2016, abortion access and the right to medical privacy for women and girls are now central issues of the 2024 presidential election. Women’s rights are especially prescient, given all the rape and incest horror stories that have become national news in the US via media reports after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Why do so many White women ardently and consistently support “MAGA Trumpism” and right-wing political policy proposals that seem so clearly not to be in their best interest?
As a new blog that will advocate for enhanced mental health and wellness legislation, Alexandra Hunt’s promotion of public health and increased funding for mental health programs is noteworthy.
Ms. Hunt graduated from the University of Richmond in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in psychology. She then earned a master’s in science for interdisciplinary health sciences from Drexel University and a Master of Public Health from Temple University.
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Among the reasons why Ms. Hunt’s new “Politics of Sex” venture attracted our attention is the opportunity to contrast “MAGA” policies with legislative efforts popular amongst liberals and progressives.
Policy examples from the left include President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act, the inflation reduction act, canceling federal student loan debt, proposals for a “wealth tax,” Medicaid for All, reinstituting the child tax credit, and increasing public funding for low-income school districts.
Let us put aside what any media organization or individual voter might think of Alexandra Hunt’s personal past, public persona, or political beliefs. Despite successive losses in the Democratic Party primary contests in Philadelphia over the past two years, Ms. Hunt continues championing policy proposals popular with liberal women and progressive voters.
Alexandra Hunt ardently advocates for reproductive rights, categorizing abortion as healthcare, sex education in public schools, LGBTQIA+ rights – and campaigns against misogynist violence directed at women and girls.
“The priorities of Congress really center corporations, which doesn’t favor getting resources into the hands and pockets of everyday people and their families,” Hunt said to reporters back in 2022.