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Dr. Anthony Fauci declines request to appear before a second Senate panel after GOP contempt vote
(www.independent.co.uk)
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I don't get their strategy here. The current administration is what's causing all the food issues and measles outbreaks. Fauci has nothing to do with it.
Distraction from their own record. Release the Epstein files and stop protecting the child rapist in the White House.
Right now Republicans have no real wins that they can campaign on, and the ones that they can are unpopular even amongst their base. They have to drum up controversy and draw the spotlights to something, and this is the best they've got.
They don't care about that.
Fauci knows things and is intelligent, made Donvict look stupid and he is the face of being told to do things that the conservative Karens didn't want to do: lockdowns, social distancing, wearing masks, and getting vaccinated.
There is no strategy, only hatred directed towards people who happened to be right when they were wrong.
It's ego all the way down.
This makes the most sense. They are struggling without him and instead of admitting they were wrong are taking out their anger on him.
It's called a scapegoat
They have to keep their fiction up, that the 2020 election was stolen, that Fauci somehow did worse than the president, and on and on.
Bring him in and rake him over the coals. Let the dems scream and holler.
Then when legitimate criminals of the current admin are brought in they will claim that the dems got all fussy with fauci so why are they doing this now.
Which will rally their base and strengthen their vote.
Bread and Circuses
Cause when they kept blaming Biden for all the shit they were causing was logical?