Anthony Fauci has become the right’s favorite COVID villain: a supposedly all-powerful bureaucrat who engineered lockdowns, silenced dissent, forced vaccines on the public and then lied about all of it. Last week’s congressional spectacle orchestrated by Rand Paul pushed that narrative even further — and for one very good reason.
The truth about Fauci is complicated. He made real mistakes that deserves scrutiny, but none of that justifies the years of smears, conspiracy theories and historical revisionism coming from the right.
In this video, I look at Fauci’s actual record, what his testimony did and did not reveal, and why the right’s obsession with him serves one overriding political purpose: distracting from Donald Trump’s catastrophic handling of COVID.
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