The media and the left tries to drive a wedge on anything involving Trump.
Fauci has been wrong about many things regarding this pandemic and he has certainly made some misstatements or said things that were rapidly interpreted by the media and democrats as anti-Trump.
However, he has clarified them later. I am not aware of him trying to stick it directly to Trump and in fact, he has said repeatedly, the President has done everything we asked.
I am not really a fan because I think his (and many others) science was bad and overly broad given the real breakdown of this virus, but I think he is stuck in the middle of two massive forces of public opinion.
The left will hate him if he does not disparage Trump. They have built him up over the past few months and they throw him all kinds of “gotcha” questions to bad mouth the President. While he has made some missteps in messaging and answer, can anyone show me where he has attacked the President?
The right hates him because they blame him for shutting down the economy (Trump’s decision by the way) based on bad models and a one-size fits all approach. While I tend to be firmly in this camp, I don’t hate the man. This virus has been a bizarre experience in many regards and it has revealed a lot of shortcomings in our preparation, plans, and even in the science of viral pandemics, but that is not the fault of one man either. There is no real modern precedent to a pandemic like this. None. Huge events in history generally follow this pattern in that they shatter the world we knew and expose weaknesses.
This was a deliberate attack on the world by China. The science of dealing with it has been “wrong by committee” from the outset and it led to some draconian and unprecedented measures throughout the world. We won’t know for months who was right and who was wrong and we will never really know with full accuracy how many deaths decision A would have given us vs decision B.
Some will guess one extreme and some the other when it is probable the truth lies somewhere in the middle. It’s an apolitical virus. Our interpretation of it and understanding is where the politics are found. Fauci, fair or unfair, right or wrong, is now stuck in the middle of the politics of all of this.
Mostly, the right seems to have chosen him as scape goat because they can’t comprehend his position.
To clarify my previous post regarding China.
I don’t know the root cause of the virus being unleashed. My assessment of a deliberate attack is based on what we know and have rehashed -
they stopped domestic travel from Wuhan and continued international travel #1
they appear to have influenced the WHO to downplay the seriousness of this for advantage #2
they refused to allow outside access to the virus and share what they knew #3
they played politics with it after they allowed it to be unleashed upon the world #4
Our nation will likely descend into partisan chaos in the coming months prior to the election with fingers pointed all over the place about this virus, the government response, and the deaths and economic damage.
Let us never forget the real culprit in this virus. The CCP. Even if Fauci (and others) got is as badly wrong as we now suspect, he will never be a pimple on the butt of blame for China in my estimation.
Most people still aren't aware of his actions and statements over the years prior to this “crisis”. He's walking a tightrope and as much as he loves his dems, he can only help them by hurting us, and many of his statements are geared towards hurting the nation long term as a whole until he is called out on them and forced to moderate his opinions.