all this time, he's just been warming up, softening up his audience… it's beautiful to see, like a flower blossoming (remember his bow tie days?)
His older audience has lived through a lot, if they are watching FOX they have at least the mindset to consider what he's saying. His ratings are pretty good (not like Hannity or Dobbs, but good) so he's doing good work and will get through to some people.
Many times they have been released in the "wild" just to track that vector - like "Lyme" disease (patented to US army, like mycoplasma fermentens and m. incognito IIRC - been a long time since I researched all that mess). Oak Ridge Nat'l Labs responded to an RFP and mentioned they were familiar with that and y. pestis (IIRC)