“We cannot allow physicians or our patients to become pawns,” said American Medical Association President Jack Resneck Jr., as he gave a somber address to AMA policymakers earlier this month. Meanwhile, he was conscripting them into a host of ideological battles.

Despite his assurances that “the AMA is fiercely nonpartisan,” Resneck vilified those who oppose COVID-19 mandates, gun restrictions, abortion access, affirmative action in medical schools, and granting minors access to sex changes, framing them as dangerous individuals.