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The popularity of Anthony Fauci clearly upsets Donald Trump.
As The New Republic’s Osita Nwanevu writes, “The American people are far more interested in hearing from Fauci, wherever he appears, than they are in hearing the administration’s line on how the pandemic is going. But Trump himself has been dismissing or contradicting Fauci’s more pessimistic remarks since the pandemic began.”
As with Robert Mueller, Sally Yates, James Comey, and the witnesses who testified against Trump during the impeachment, “a remarkable fandom has sprung up around Fauci over the last several months, notes Nwanevu. “New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been Fauci’s formidable rival for the affections of the press.”
With mainstream media falling for Fauci, you may just need an independent voice to cut through the fog:
Osita Nwanevu reminds us that “‘Trump’s America’ has never actually contained a majority of Americans who support Trump, his policies, or his approach to politics. The country’s Faucis have long been more popular than its right-wing demagogues.”
Nwanevu adds: “We should see this as emblematic not of how facts and reason might ultimately prevail but of how little they can functionally matter when pitted against a minority disproportionately empowered by our political system and by material and social forces more central to politics than the opinions of experts ever will be.”
“We’re headed for dark times, and it seems unlikely that Fauci candles will light the way ahead,” Nwanevu warns.
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