Fauci isn't a hero, he's a villain

Anthony Fauci's diaries reveal a megalomaniac who lied to political leaders, to the media, and to the public

Last week, a very embarrassing thing happened to exactly the kind of man who deserves to be embarrassed. The diaries of Dr. Anthony Fauci, orchestrator of the Covid charade, were released to the public by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky. Fauci’s diaries revealed an adolescent preoccupation with celebrity—both his own, and that of others—as well as a willingness to lie in order to protect his interests.

As reported by Fox News:

The diary entries document Fauci’s fondness of his newfound fame, cozy relationships with a variety of legacy media personalities, his growing frustration with the Trump White House and the suggestion that it was "not hyperbole" to say he was "the most famous and talked about person in the country."

Fauci kept the diaries on a government computer, then emailed them to himself, as he wanted to use them to write his next book. This allowed Paul to access and release them, revealing that Fauci lied about almost everything: about having shut down schools, about Covid-related deaths, about transmissibility, about the suspected origin of the virus, about treatments such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and about the efficacy of the “vaccine.”

Any normal person would be deeply embarrassed, but I worry that narcissists of his caliber don’t feel embarrassment. I suspect they maintain adoration for themselves—convinced their behaviour is right and justified, and that they deserve all the accolades, money, power, doughnuts with their faces on them—regardless of the impact on others or the nefarious ways in which they won all that.

What Fauci got away with and was pardoned for by Biden, just before leaving office on January 24, 2025, is horrific. His involvement in the pandemic makes him responsible for the destruction of countless people’s lives, families, and businesses. But the commitment to which progressives must hate Trump, conservatives, and really, anyone who is not just like them, means it is not only all excused, but in fact it doesn’t exist at all. To them, Fauci remains a hero, and all those who turned out to be right—people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for example, who laid it all out for us in a very big, meticulously cited, book—are still “conspiracy theorists,” “anti-vaxxers” (I mean, at this point, knowing what we know, maybe you should be?), “MAGA,” and a variety of other slurs and labels that equate, essentially, to “non-human” or at very least not-to-be-listened-to.

I’m not sure if there is anything that can be written, spoken, or evidenced that will convince those who turned out to be deadly wrong that they were. The silos they built and insulated themselves in won’t allow it. Their political identities prevent them from hearing anything from those they’ve placed on “the other side” of the political spectrum, pitted as enemies. Even reading Kennedy’s book would be sacrilege, as it would allow information to enter their brains from a source they must label “kook” (and who is associated with Trump) in order to maintain their view of themselves as intelligent, worldly, well-informed, high class people who trust the science. Not like the dum dums who actually looked the “science,” or simply used their rational brains to determine that we were doing irrational things in response to Covid, and pointed out that the media, politicized messaging, and “The Science™” was wrong.

Now that Fauci’s own words—which sound very much like the words of a teenage girl writing about being invited to a sleepover with the popular girls, then being asked out by their crush—are freely available to the public, the truth is undeniable.