Do you remember when Joe Rogan wasn’t the semi-official mouthpiece for an entire political party? More importantly, does he remember?

Contrary to his current function, Joe Rogan wasn’t always an eager and willing propagandist who explicitly endorsed and supported the richest man in the world and the power-hungry President of the United States. In fact, there was once a time when the most popular podcaster on Earth urged the public to be wary of billionaires who, like Rogan’s current buddies Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, use their immense influence and unchecked power to control media narratives and distort facts about our fragile democracy instead of inviting them to bro down on The Joe Rogan Experience.

Of course, that era had already ended by the time Rogan blasted a few dozen doses of ivermectin into his bloodstream. The current version of the UFC commentator and stand-up...