Our memory of tyranny is terribly short

After writing two best-selling books about the many wicked deceits of Anthony Fauci, the phrase “I told you so” still offers me little satisfaction in the face of breaking news that the dastardly dweeb was funding COVID research on bats in Montana in 2018.

That’s because no matter how much evil we discover, elevating truth and achieving justice seem all the more elusive. And let me be absolutely clear what I mean by that: There ought to be hangings for this.

After a fair trial, of course.

In any previous era of the West, we would be insisting on such trials simply to avoid the lynch mobs, posses, and vigilante justice consuming the people who lost their family businesses or watched their family members die alone because of the medical and constitutional tyranny of the lockdowns.

It’s even worse than that, though. Everything that is going on in our broken country right now — and I mean absolutely everything — is tainted by what Fauci and the COVID cult did to us. The Hamas attack on Israel? Remember, prior to March 2020, Donald Trump was president and brokering the Abraham Accords with Israel and various Arab states.

Debt and inflation? Sure, even Trump was spending too much during the first three years of his presidency. But after COVID, the United States printed 80% of all dollars ever to circulate in our history.

Election integrity? Well, Trump handed the tyrants $400 million through the detestable CARES Act to ... um ... let’s call it “ballot harvest.”

See what I mean? Pick any issue at all, and I can tie it back to the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad decisions spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Because even if it’s something not directly tied to COVID or the heinous policies that ensued as a result, COVID nonetheless permitted people such as Fauci to gain immense power. This is why I can never let this go without a reckoning. Everything goes back to that. And I will never stop reminding you of that. No matter how much some of you don’t want to hear it.

I know full well, however, that many of you have moved on already. In this era, we’ve replaced a deep hunger for justice with delusions like the 2022 midterm elections, when nearly everybody on the ballot who either created the environment for COVID tyranny or flat-out endorsed it was returned to office. YOLO!

Our impulses to conserve and defend that which is good, true, and beautiful for human flourishing are utterly compromised — even among those who claim a biblical worldview, sadly. By their fruit you will know them, and the church’s fruit often wilts these days.

At the same time, the spirit of the age has essentially abandoned every fundamental that brought Western civilization to life and sustained us for century after century. So deep is the void that it explains why recent conversations like the one between Joe Rogan and Elon Musk feel to many of us like the Council of Nicaea.

We are so starving for certainty that we find solace in the fact that two men who know nothing of Christ sound borderline apostolic nevertheless — simply because they’re not insane. That’s not exactly harkening back to the wisdom of the ancients here, but I haven’t even gotten to the really depressing stuff yet.

I heard from some of my little birdies in the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign that when they have conducted focus groups and brought up COVID, people's eyes just roll or glaze over. These are Republican primary voters, mind you, not your timid normie neighbor who went from putting an Obama sign to a Trump sign to a Biden sign in his yard. Nope. This is the supposedly salt-of-the-earth GOP base, which has apparently decided to forget about how Fauci and company screwed them with their pants on. Not to mention inflicted perhaps irrevocable yet generational harm to the country and their children and grandchildren.

“We move on so our enemies can move ahead” is quite the yard sign, don’t you agree?

Sounds more like an epitaph to me.