Midterm Voters Rewarded Elected Officials Who Stood Up To Covid Tyrants

Despite Democrats’ attempts to backpedal their Covid shutdowns and fearmongering, the American people haven’t forgotten their radical abuses of power (as evidenced by how close New Yorkers came to electing a Republican governor after the Covid-era malfeasance of the state’s Democrat leaders). But voters also haven’t forgotten who pushed back against the insanity.

From governors who fought to keep their state economies open to senators who pushed to hold Covid bureaucrats accountable, many major figures who stood up to Covid tyrants were rewarded by their constituents at the ballot box on Tuesday.

Sen. Rand Paul

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who was reelected on Tuesday with 61 percent of the Bluegrass State’s vote, frequently grilled Dr. Anthony Fauci on the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director’s Covid lies. As early as June 2020, Paul was demanding to know why children were not allowed to return to in-person learning.

During the summer of 2021, Paul questioned Fauci about the origins of Covid-19, engaging “in a heated debate about NIH [the National Institutes of Health] sending taxpayer money to the lab that researched bat-based illnesses and was investigated as a potential cause of the coronavirus pandemic.” Fauci denied that the NIH was funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan, and Paul was smeared by corporate media outlets like The Washington Post, which gave him two Pinocchios for highlighting “ample evidence that the NIH and the NIAID, under [Fauci’s] direction, funded gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” Details emerged in September 2021, however, indicating that Fauci’s agency did in fact fund gain-of-function research, vindicating Paul and contradicting Fauci’s testimony under oath.

Sen. Ron Johnson

Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who beat out Democrat challenger Mandela Barnes to keep his Senate seat, also stood up to the Covid fearmongering during the height of the Wuhan virus insanity, particularly regarding Covid shots. For questioning vaccine mandates, highlighting some Americans’ adverse reactions to vaccines, and discussing potential Covid cures deemed unacceptable by the corporate media, the Wisconsin senator was smeared as “fundamentally dangerous.” In November 2021, when he posted a video on his YouTube page featuring “a panel on vaccine-related injuries,” his page was temporarily suspended for the fifth time, and the video was declared to be “Covid misinformation.”

Johnson kept the pressure on Big Tech, calling out tech companies’ attempts to silence opposing viewpoints that were critical of Covid tyrants, as Federalist Staff Writer Evita Duffy explains. Instead of submitting to these oligarchs, “he rose to the challenge, grilling executives at Twitter, Meta, YouTube, and TikTok for election interference, censoring substantiated information related to Covid.”

Senator-Elect Eric Schmitt

The newly-elected senator of Missouri, Eric Schmitt, pushed back against vaccine mandates as the state’s attorney general, blasting such mandates as a way to “accumulate, aggregate, and maintain power.”

“People can make these very important decisions themselves, and I don’t want to live in some futuristic, dystopian, biomedical security state,” the then-attorney general explained. “I’m going to do everything I can as attorney