A smear artist? Clearly you haven't seen many of his videos. He has criticized lockdowns, he has criticized school closures, he has criticized various mandates multiple times. He has defended the vaccine hesitant crowd multiple times on multiple levels. He has also criticized the crazy anti vaccine people as well, and you know why? Because he is objective enough to see past the idiots on both extremes. You talk about nuance, this is a guy who goes into the nuance, who sees behind the tribalism.
Yet he hasn't been cancelled.
Just for you I watched part of the video you posted. You are right his tone has changed, most likely because the other videos where he insults and gaslights the hell out of anyone who disagrees with him got radioed and he's at least bright enough to tell that the wind as switched directions so now he is backpedalling like a spineless coward.
That said the gaslighting continues, setting himself up as the arbiter of truth and everyone who is reasonable must meet in a middle ground that he decides otherwise they are an unhinged extremist lunatic.
No evidence reviewed, just his opinions which of course lead off into the "everything's fine" territory. Nice and safe for youtube.
I got to the part where he said "Everything on Rumble should be deleted" and called it quits. That's an outright admission to being an anti-science propagandist who thinks the first amendment is antiquated and disposable.
There is no pandemic exception to the constitution, and they had a nasty pandemic when it was written.