We Have to Force Ourselves to Remember What the Left Did Under Biden
21st May 2025
leaving us with constant whiplash. Even so, we have a duty to remember how bad things were under President Joe Biden, because the institutional factors that enabled his presidency—and the cover-up of his health problems—have yet to be dismantled.
Human beings are fickle, and our memories often end up getting twisted by present concerns. When the Israelites were hungry in the wilderness, God had to remind them that he brought them up out of slavery in Egypt, because their hungry stomachs led them to say they had it better under the whips of their masters (Exodus 16:1-8).
Similarly, we are often tempted to leave injustices in the past, because it’s easier to move on. Thus, after the COVID-19 pandemic, some voices I respect called for a “pandemic amnesty.”
Yet COVID-19 exposed the corruption of the public health bureaucracy, which repeatedly lied to the American people. Bureaucrats abused their power—forcing churches to close, demanding businesses shutter, and keeping kids out of the classroom.
These abuses show why Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s shake-up of the public health establishment is way overdue. We must remember the abuses, so we accept the hard medicine we now need. If we forget, we may not address the corruption at the root of these problems, and the excesses of the bureaucracy will metastasize like Biden’s prostate cancer.