Bannon recognized similar neglect happening with regard to Big Pharma. Drug company price gouging and profiteering have traditionally been the purview of the left; they’re the kind of thing Bernie Sanders rails against. But aside from some grumbling, there was weak resistance among progressives to the way vaccine manufacturers were profiteering from the pandemic, and so Bannon became the one taking on Big Pharma’s greed—but, once again, via unfounded conspiracy theories rather than the real scandals.

XREF: Connects to broader pattern of how declining partisan ownership of issues creates openings for opportunistic (and often bad-faith) actors to seize the space.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 401