Because of our common fight against the Covid insanity of the past three-plus years, I have had the privilege of getting to know a fairly large network of journalists, medical professionals, data hounds, and all-around truth seekers. We loosely called ourselves 'Team Reality,' as opposed to the apocalyptic fear mongers using what was essentially a bad cold virus to take away freedoms far too many of us had taken for granted. As our merry band questioned the veracity of the insane ways governments responded to the virus, from lockdowns to masks to rushing and then imposing a useless and dangerous 'vaccine,' all of which ended up doing more harm than good, we formed a unique bond that only happens when you're part of a group going through some sort of fire together.
Friendships started online and continued through various online and even in-person meet-ups, and I suspect many of them will last long after Covid is a distant memory, especially since we know without a doubt that the powers-that-be will happily try the same insanity should another pandemic hit. The most interesting and heartening aspect of this alliance is that it crossed party lines in the best of ways. Sure, conservatives and right-leaning libertarians tended to resist the tyrannical insanity better than liberals or leftists, but it wasn't uncommon to befriend someone who was on the other side of the political aisle on most matters but aligned with me on this. While we would have likely never gotten to know each other in another political environment, amazingly, at that unique moment in history, all those other differences quickly faded away in light of the clear and present danger facing us all.
Of course, I would argue that the leftists who came to the right side of Covid policy did so in spite of, not because of, their leftism. They witnessed the government and medical establishment's overbearing and tyrannical response and woke up to the dangers of that worldview. In effect, they were redpilled by the tyrants, not us. We were just there to pick up the pieces. Consequently, I witnessed many former leftists say they would never, ever vote for a leftist Democrat again for higher office.
In the end, the things we had in common, the desire for bodily autonomy, personal freedom, and a culture not built around treating every human being like a deadly disease vector, far outweighed the things we disagreed on. That's why so many of us on the right can appreciate the campaign of someone like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and many on the left have favorable views of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. After all, what difference does someone's stand on, say, abortion make when they're actively promoting a deadly, useless jab even to this day?
Interestingly, one thing we all agree on, almost to a person as far as I know, is that Donald Trump DOES NOT deserve another bite at the apple as POTUS. We saw what happened in 2020 and how that laid the foundation for all that was to come. We covered it. We fought against it. We were censored and banned from social media. We lost friends, family members, jobs, and even churches because of our 'controversial' stands on these issues. We lived and breathed it every day for years and, in the end, we were proven right.
Some of us, like me, came early to this fight. Others came later and pivoted when they saw enough to be convinced. At least they came. DeSantis began with lockdowns and vaccine pushing and ended, after a careful analysis of data, by renouncing it all and ensuring via strong legislation that history never repeats itself. Trump, on the other hand, still insists that a 'vaccine' that has likely been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide actually "saved hundreds of millions" of lives. His ego won't let him admit he was wrong on anything, and so even to this day he continues to double and triple down, hoping enough people will forget to allow him to win the presidency anyway.
But we won’t forget, ever, because the threat of the permanent establishment of a tyrannical biomedical security state is far more real now than it ever was in 2019. So when I see the Trump-supporting Twitter warriors out there still clinging to the good old days of 2016, projecting their image of Trump as somehow 'anti-establishment,' and spreading lies about the best Covid governor in the nation, what I don't see is anyone who shared the trenches with me in the Covid wars joining their ranks. If you aren't at least questioning why that's the case, you aren't in the business of ensuring that none of this insanity ever happens again.