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MAGA denigrated as the man it tried to destroy flips the tables

Fauci Was Not the Target. Public Trust Was.The SetupThe source story is simple enough: an 85-year-old public-health veteran who helped steer the COVID vaccine response was dragged into a hostile Republican spectacle, with Rand Paul leading the charge and a leaked diary turned into a political cudgel. The hearing did not clarify a real charge so much as stage a ritual of resentment around masks, closures, vaccines, and the discomfort of being governed by evidence.Who Held the GavelThe institutional power in this story sat with the Republican senators, not with Fauci. They controlled the…

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