[TheRealThing]

Like it or not, Dr. Fauci is part of Trump's team. I don't think that any president can effectively distance himself from a long series of bad hires. You can laugh at me, but I really believe that the buck stops on the President's desk when he follows the bad advice of his own team. I have not been critical of President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic because I believe circumstances did not leave him any good options if he wanted to maintain any political viability.

It is hard for me to believe that any sentient being would cast a ballot for Joe Biden in November but I know that tens of millions will do just that even in a best case scenario. A party that has managed to keep Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court long past her natural expiration date should not be underestimated.

Not only that but, try and understand after all the effort to re-educate folks between 2010 and 2018, that they would be goofy enough to turn the House of Representatives over to the Dems again. And that, knowing that in all likelihood Pelosi would be Speaker.

He's gone now but I believe it was Trey Gowdy today on TV saying that Trump has to let the medical community make all these 'calls' as to the length of the lockdown etc. So Fauci is vested with the power of the Executive during times of infectious threat? :igiveup: Not that it excuses following bad advice, but there are outspoken Republicans aplenty out there, willing to give stern albeit wrong headed advice who're little more than followers themselves.