‘Public Health’ Is an Idol Trump Is Starting to Smash, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, September 2, 2025

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

In previous centuries, when most people believed they had immortal souls that would be judged, a tyrant hungry for power would try to control the Church so he could dominate the many by seeming to imperil what they treasured most — their salvation. Some of the worst abuses in my own Catholic church saw popes and bishops deny whole cities the sacraments of marriage and even baptism over some papal land grab or squalid dynastic squabble.

What do those hungry for power to bully their fellow citizens with now? The health of our bodies, the tenure we spend in this mortal coil. Instead of selling indulgences that supposedly speed our souls to Heaven, they press on us ever-newer medicines and untested vaccines in which we’re meant to have blind faith on the strength of their solemn authority, backed by the State’s mailed fist. The phrase “public health” has morphed from a neutral, useful term into an Orwellian mantra the Left invokes whenever it wishes to strip us of some fundamental right. As I wrote here back in 2021: …

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