Let’s start with COVID hysteria. The type found right here on the formerly Free Republic. The type that had bogus “case fatality” rates and hockey stick death count charts. Then Fearpers who where already at home collecting monthly government checks decided they would support lockdowns in the name of their personal safety. They decided to sacrifice the liberty of others in some vain attempt to protect themselves.
Once the tyrannical governors realized that even so called staunch conservatives were fleeing to their arms for protection they enabled the destruction of ballot integrity. Numerous laws were ignored waived or changed to support a “safe” election. At the point many Fearpers had no logical or credible objection since they had already endorsed tyranny.
I say a part of Free Republic enabled this travesty.
As an original “FluBro” I may be bitter and holding a grudge.
Actually some not taking the matter as seriously as it deserved and getting in front of the narrative from the very beginning is what may have contributed.
The lies and stupidity of (some) the “flubros” were of no help. This opened the door for the Left to take control of this narrative as well as the agenda to use as a political weapon and enact agendas supposedly about preventing a pandemic but were really an opportunity for taking control, and then they lied about the reality of the (very) aggressive steps the Trump Administration was taking to defeat this pandemic. We should have owned this narrative from the beginning and supported the President...but instead stupid crap like “scamdemic”, “no worse than the common cold” and other such nonsense permeated. And the lies and stupidity continue today - witness those claiming the vaccine “genetically modifies” those who take it. Literal insanity.