I agree with you completely. Fauci is a slimy little weasel and Brix was clueless. Cannot stand either of them. I just am perplexed by Trump allowed it. He is such a capable administrator, to not have shown this duo the door was inexcusable. However, I will give Trump the benefit of the doubt...but no doubt this was the worst call of his administration in my judgment.
I’m less willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. The buck stopped with him, and he had almost a year to fire them or at least pull them off TV and stick them back in their bureaucratic cubbyholes. It was failure of some combination of leadership, judgment, and moral courage, and I think he owns the results.
If there’s any doubt, it’s whether it all would have happened anyway. But I very much doubt we would have seen states like Texas jump on board with insane policies like lockdowns, school shutdowns, and mask mandates without the federal government’s endorsement of them.