said, let s all drink bleach to cure covid, dr. fauci wasn t there. he didn t want any part of that. when donald trump was touting hydroxychloroquine, it was sort of like ivermectin. dr. fauci refused to endorse it, refused to have anything to do with it. and it was well reported before the election that if donald trump won the election, one of the first things he would do was fire dr. fauci. the crime that fauci committed was standing up to him. i also think, and we ve talked about this before on the beat, that this is kind of part of a gop war on science, but that war on science and the trump era has become part of the attack on democracy. when you re attacking logic and reason, these are the tools of science and democracy, and by attacking science you are weakening democracy. in a democracy a badly informed citizen is actually a bad