Why the Right Hates Anthony Fauci

Our friends on the left think they understand why so many on the right loathe Anthony Fauci, the media-anointed de facto spokesman for coronavirus response despite his being the head of merely one of 27 agencies that operate under the aegis of the National Institutes of Health, which in turn is one of many agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Right, according to the Left, hates Truth and Science (along with poor people, women, minorities, and immigrants from anywhere but Cuba), and we are bitter about Fauci because of his insistence on repeating inconvenient facts. Also Fauci made Trump look bad. Yet strong approval for Fauci is down to 7 percent among Republicans. That is down there in the same range as the most overtly partisan figures in America. Something more has to be going on, and it is.

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Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith is the film critic for the Wall Street Journal.

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Our friends on the left think they understand why so many on the right loathe Anthony Fauci, the media-anointed de facto spokesman for coronavirus response despite his being the head of merely one of 27 agencies that operate under the aegis of the National Institutes of Health, which in turn is one of many agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Right, according to the Left, hates Truth and Science (along with poor people, women, minorities, and immigrants from anywhere but Cuba), and we are bitter about Fauci because of his insistence on repeating inconvenient facts. Also Fauci made Trump look bad. Yet strong approval for Fauci is down to 7 percent among Republicans. That is down there in the same range as the most overtly partisan figures in America. Something more has to be going on, and it is.