[Source.](https://the-pipeline.org/the-column-gaslighted/) > With Trump now all but disposed of, and in preparation for the determinative election of 2024, the Left has turned back to two of its favorites bugbears: Covid and "climate change." The first Covid hoax resulted in the spectacular destruction of the Trump presidency, the booming American economy, and most important, the First Amendment's protection of freedom of religion, speech, and freedom of assembly. The nascent repeat of that astounding lie, now playing in grocery stores and on college campuses near you, is further proof of Marx's only noteworthy observation that "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." > And yet this malignant dwarf has now returned once more to pester us: >> Fauci admits that masks don’t work for the public at large but still absurdly claims masks work on an individual basis. More subterfuge. [pic.twitter.com/UcjOa8flkr](https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1698372490639327556) >> — Rand Paul (@RandPaul) September 3, 2023