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Aliveshock If you look at what Fauci saw in the Trump landscape, I think you can understand his choice.
We watched as many good, competent, serious civil servants were savaged, fired/dismissed, and replaced not only with yes-men/-women, but also with completely incompetent fools, often with no background in the subject area.
Yes, Trump was a disaster, and his handling of the US "response"--such as it was!--to the pandemic is criminal.
Fauci provided a consistent, quiet, assured, authoritative counter to the wild claims of Trump. We had various sources of "information"--actual & "dis-"--over the course of the Trumpian plane crash of a response, but only Fauci (if one were to choose between him & Trump) had ANY sort of credentials to make someone believe in their information.
I am glad we had this voice of reason in a national administration riddled with fools, anti-science, anti-Constitution, and ever-spiraling conspiracies.
If he had exited, it wouod have made news for a few cycles, then he would have been replaced by someone without their own thought process, or someone without Fauci's ability to keep on presenting,
ad nauseum (for him), the facts about the best practices, the state of infections in tge US, etc.
Difficult, and easy to be an armchair critic.
It makes more sense to attack the people in Congress who defaulted on their duty to the Constiution by enabling the fools to run roughshod over us all. They defaulted on thrir oaths. Fauci did not.