Was Anthony Fauci Too Powerful? – OpEd
Key Takeaways:
- In a recent Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, Republicans criticized Anthony Fauci for failing to answer questions, while Democrats and cultural institutions (Smithsonian exhibit, PBS documentary) continue to portray him as a public-health hero.
- The article argues Fauci wielded unelected executive-level power during the COVID era through lockdowns and mandates, never facing Senate confirmation or election, and cites critics such as Angelo Codevilla and Nobel laureate Kary Mullis who questioned his scientific credentials and role.
- It frames Fauci’s tenure as an example of “white coat supremacy”—concentrated bureaucratic medical power—and calls for ensuring such unchecked authority never recurs, noting Joe Biden’s presidential pardon as further confirmation of unresolved issues surrounding his record.
In last Wednesday’s hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Republicans blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci, who failed to answer a single question. On the other hand, Democrats hailed Fauci as a hero of public health, a point of view found in a laudatory exhibit in the Smithsonian and a PBS “American Masters” documentaryhailing Tony Fauci as a heroic “scientist and immunologist.”
If that leaves the American people confused, they might invoke witnesses not present in the hearing. In effect, by issuing a presidential pardon, Joe Biden confirmed that Dr. Fauci’s is a criminal, but there’s more to it.
In 2021, Biden joked, “but hey, look, who’s the president? Fauci.” At the time, the people had grounds to take that quip seriously. Dr. Fauci, whose salary exceeded Biden’s, exercised executive-level power with lockdowns, mandates, and so forth. As that all came down, one reality escaped notice.
The president of the United States is the only official elected by all the people. Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and a government bureaucrat for more than 50 years, never once stood for election. In fact, Dr. Fauci was never once confirmed by the Senate, so no term limit for the NIAID boss.
The people might also consider the view of the late Angelo Codevilla, author of The Ruling Class, Informing Statecraft, and other books. As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Codevilla was one of the few to see everything the CIA wanted money for, so he became an expert on “deep state” operators.
“I knew for sure that Anthony Fauci is a fraud after listening to him for about 10 seconds,” wrote Codevilla, in a piece headlined “Fauci is a Deep State Fraud.” Fauci’s NIAID “had partially financed the notorious Wuhan laboratory where Chinese scientists were researching the virus.” That was true, but consider another witness on the scientific side.
Nobel laureate Kary Mullis invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, a major advance in medicine and criminal justice. Mullis was on record that Anthony Fauci “doesn’t understand electron microscopy and he doesn’t understand medicine. He should not be in a position like he’s in.” Fauci never should have had the NIAID job, and the notion that he represents science is ludicrous.
Kary Mullis, one of our brightest scientists, boasts no Smithsonian exhibit or PBS documentary. By contrast, Anthony Fauci, whose bio shows no advanced degrees in molecular biology or biochemistry, is the subject of government-sanctioned hagiography. That remains in place in the wake of Fauci’s destructive record and presidential pardon for crimes Joe Biden declined to name. The NIAID boss also got preferential treatment from the media.
Former CBS News reporter Brittney Hopper was pulled off the air because she dared to question Dr. Fauci. The establishment media served as Fauci’s echo chamber, and long before Covid, the NIAID boss was adept at cancelling the media appearances of critics far more scientifically qualified than himself.
Dr. Fauci controlled public health policy and funding for medical research, a huge concentration of power, bolstered by nepotism. Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady, an NIH bioethics official, signed off on everything the NIAID boss wanted to do, including gruesome drug trials.
For all but the willfully blind, Dr. Anthony Fauci is the face of white coat supremacy, an arrogant medical bureaucrat lording it over the people. His Covid regime was the closest the nation has come to totalitarian rule. Whatever Fauci’s fate in the justice system, that must never happen again. The struggle against white coat supremacy is the struggle of memory against forgetting. The people will be watching.
- This article was also published in The American Spectator
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