A distressingly large portion of the American political spectrum looking for scapegoats rather than solutions.
a security detail for infectious-diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci because, as his stature has grown as one of the pillars of the American response to the pandemic, so have the rumblings of the far right, conspiracy theory wing of President Donald Trump’s support.
As a result, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has grown increasingly concerned about Fauci’s safety and the Justice Department on Tuesday signed off on an HHS request for a security detail for the doctor. “Yesterday, upon the recommendation of the U.S. Marshals Service, the department approved the special deputization request from H.H.S. for nine H.H.S.-O.I.G. [Office of the Inspector General] special agents to provide protective services for Dr.
The right wing has struggled to come to grips with the scale and potential impact of the coronavirus pandemic. A mixture of disbelief of anything beyond their immediate orbit, a profound unwillingness to take any coordinated personal action beyond consumption, and an implicit reliance on divine intervention, has made a distressingly large portion of the American political spectrumrather than solutions. For the most virulent part of the Trump supporter base, Fauci is one of those scapegoats.
The right wing sees Fauci carefully disagree with Trump on a national stage and artfully try to bring the president of the United States back into the fold of reasoned decision-making and Trumpistas see a deep state plant. Trump wants a vaccine, a drug of any sort, a miracle cure that will take the place of the difficult decisions that he was elected to make.
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