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Fauci’s Downfall Reveals the Danger of Rule by ‘Experts’

The rise and fall of Fauci is one of the great political lessons of our time about the folly and destructiveness of rule by so-called expertise.

On Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in his appearance before the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

He may well indeed be fortunate to have that right and his pardon from former President Joe Biden given the grilling he received from the senators following the release of his diary by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Saturday.

The diary revealed a man, once revered as a paragon of science and medicine, as a vain, egomaniacal, and ultimately frivolous glorymonger who knew a lot less about what was really going on during the COVID-19 pandemic than his massively inflated media persona let on.

Fauci wasn’t even smart enough to refrain from jotting it all down in his journal to boot, hence his need to clam up rather than answer questions from senators who were given a serious bone to pick with the former self-styled bureaucrat in chief.

Fauci’s diary posts remind me so much of the letters of Civil War Gen. George McClellan during his ill-fated time in charge of the Army of the Potomac, explaining in the most grandiose terms to his wife how he could be a dictator if he wanted to but won’t because of “admirable self-denial.”

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McClellan at least had some reason to think of himself as a wunderkind, a young Napoleon, given his exceptional early military career. 

Fauci was little more than a career bureaucrat who’d suddenly been promoted by the........

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