The greatest contradiction and scandal in the first half of America’s history was slavery, whose existence made a mockery of all the liberties promised in the Declaration of Independence. It took a grueling, bloody civil war fought over secession to make abolition possible as a happy side effect.
Tragically, the country wasn’t ready to offer black Americans full civil rights for another 100 years, and the conditions many faced after former Confederates clawed back power were close to de facto slavery: segregation, sharecropping, punitive laws, lynchings, and no right to vote.
Much of that failure to secure civil rights for black people can be traced to a foolish appointment by Abraham Lincoln: his choice of pro-slavery Southern unionist Andrew Johnson as vice president.
What’s the worst scandal that scarred the second half of our country’s history and threatened our Constitution? Not same-sex “marriage,” the transgender plague, or even legal abortion — as evil as all three things are.
No, the greatest threat to our most basic freedoms which arose since 1865 was the COVID panic, and the medical fascism that our government colluded with global institutions and billion-dollar corporations to enforce.
And that’s why so many of us are watching Donald Trump’s appointments to key public health positions with bated breath. So far he has made one terrible choice — Janette Nesheiwat for Surgeon General — and one that is extraordinary: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health. (See what I learned from Dr. Bhattacharya during my 2022 interview with him.)
They Called Us “Mass Murderers”
As I wrote back in 2023:
Far too many self-styled conservatives were willing to throw out every constitutional principle when our elites waved the panic flag over COVID. They meekly went along as governors shut down churches (but not casinos or abortion mills), bankrupted small businesses, banned political gatherings (except for BLM riots) and forced a dubious, rushed vaccine dependent on aborted babies’ tissue into every American’s arm.
It cost candidates (and pastors) something to push back against that panic. [Governor] Ron De Santis was accused of “mass murder” for reopening Florida. Church leaders who gathered for worship were condemned as “superspreaders.” Leftists in the media even sneered when the beloved Herman Cain died of COVID, as if he’d deserved it for attending an election rally for Trump.
There was far from universal resistance on the Right to the COVID panic attack. Far too many eager to appear “responsible” threw their weight behind the most radical, draconian measures — as if locking down the country and forcing vaccines into their veins brought no costs at all.
Remember when pharmacy chains wouldn’t honor doctors’ prescriptions for ivermectin because (it turned out) they’d been bribed by Big Pharma? Remember when the WHO was censoring YouTube, letting 23-year-old interns with Queer Theory B.A.s silence and cancel famous epidemiologists? When Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer locked all her state’s citizens in their homes, in violation (a court later ruled) of the state constitution — but instead of facing consequences, she helped the FBI fake a kidnapping plot against her to shame and silence her critics? I remember when my cardiologist, Dr. Peter McCullough, got his board certifications yanked and was driven out of the practice he’d founded for questioning deadly treatments like ventilators and the untested COVID vaccine.
I remember the useless face diapers, the shuttered schools, the claims that lockdown opponents like DeSantis were guilty of “mass murder.” And I remember the real mass murder that happened when blue-state governors dumped COVID patients in nursing homes, killing thousands of Korean War vets and grandmas — presumably to spike the death statistics and justify fraud-prone mail-in voting in the 2020 election. How about those hospitals that denied life-saving treatments to the unvaccinated? And the thousands of unvaccinated people who were kicked out of our military or fired from their jobs?
And our elites had even worse in mind for us. The Brownstone Institute has revealed that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were planning quarantine camps for the unvaccinated. You know, like the ones that held Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor.
Anthony Fauci in Drag
Trump’s choice for Surgeon General shocked many of us. And frankly, it should. Because Janette Nesheiwat is virtually indistinguishable from Anthony Fauci, except that she has better hair. She is on record as having supported the whole array of tyrannical, unscientific, counterproductive crackpot measures that were imposed across the world — from masking to vaxing to lockdowns, and even to censoring Americans’ free speech.
But don’t take my word for it. Watch her saying all these things herself.
10 videos of Janette Nesheiwat supporting vaccines, masking, and censorship
Donald Trump has nominated Janette Nesheiwat as his pick for Surgeon General. Dr. Nesheiwat made a name for herself during Covid, appearing on all of the networks supporting masking and vaccines,… pic.twitter.com/Ncd1SVOyXc
— The Right Answer (@theright_answer) November 24, 2024
Americans voted for Trump because we reject the smug, ill-informed, thuggish rule of our mediocre elites — who proved their incompetence and malice when they imposed medical fascism on Americans. But with unrepentant public health fascists like Nesheiwat around him, will Trump impose lockdowns again the next time China sends us a weaponized virus? Will it be deja vu all over again?
Trump’s choice of Bhattacharya for the much more powerful post running the National Institutes of Health is, by contrast, extremely encouraging, as COVID antifascists such as Steve Deace, Naomi Wolf, and many others have been trumpeting. My old church friend, historian Tom Woods, lays out the reasons:
The nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to be the director of the National Institutes of Health is the single greatest case of poetic justice in my lifetime.
Jay, who holds both an MD as well as a PhD in economics, is a professor at Stanford University.
During the COVID years…
— Tom Woods (@ThomasEWoods) November 27, 2024
In his first term, Trump was a crippled giant surrounded by backstabbers and leakers who punished his supporters while cozying up to his enemies. The cabinet picks he makes today, and his willingness to shove them down the throats of Senate RINOs, will decide whether that happens all over again or whether we really do stand a chance of decontaminating America’s public square.
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.
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