Steve Deace Show ECHOES OF 2020: Are We Making the Same COVID Mistakes? | 1/27/26
Jan 27, 2026
Zach Dieken, Iowa state representative and pro-life advocate, discusses a bill defining unborn life as human from fertilization and proposed penalties. Conversation covers legal gaps, due process parity, political hesitancy among lawmakers, and tactical ideas like incremental measures. Also compares current federal-local dynamics to early COVID-era responses and warns against repeating past mistakes.
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Insurgency-Like Organizing In Cities
- Eric Schwalm (quoted) describes Minneapolis unrest as organized low-level insurgency, not spontaneous protest.
- He highlights command-and-control elements like spotters, dispatch nodes, doxing, and coordinated harassment.
Early-COVID Playbook Repeating
- Steve Deace warns current events mirror early COVID dynamics where leadership ceded control by legitimizing opposing voices.
- He argues that conceding narrative control leads to decentralized enforcement and long-term loss of authority.
Early-2020 Warning Feeling Returned
- Todd Erzin recounts sensing alarm in early March 2020 and pleading with listeners not to fall for COVID measures.
- He says that same pit returned reading Steve's COVID analogy to current events.
