The easiest way to lead the people down the wrong path is with a messiah figure. This person is always a cult leader. It must be someone who can compel the people to trust him, whether by portrayal of expertise or through pure charisma. Anthony Fauci was the former. He has been training and dreaming his whole life of being the go-to expert on a major health crisis and the Covid pandemic which he likely helped create turned out to be his moment in the sun. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is his replacement. Rather than expertise, he offers charisma. Governments...
