When one thinks about the key supporters of MAHA, they likely don’t envision Black people, and rightfully so. A2025 poll from KFF and The Washington Post found that only 30% of Black Americans support the MAHA movement, compared with 43% of white Americans.
But the data belie a stark reality: On an issue-to-issue basis, Black people are strikingly aligned with MAHA, at least in terms of their concerns around the movement’s tentpole issues. I’ve been studying why, or rather how, this came to be.
