By Stephen Moore, Patriot Post - I have never bought the conspiracy theories that COVID-19 was a diabolical political plot to undermine the country... Without COVID-19, Pres. Joe Biden would never have been elected, of course. So, for the left, the virus defeated former President Donald Trump. COVID-19 is now the gateway to the left’s utopian agenda of multitrillion-dollar climate policies, hyperregulation of the economy, the rebirth of the welfare state and a radical redistribution of income.