That sounds like you're blaming Fauci for failing to convince Trump? Isn't that backwards? The point to having a head of state (or any senior executive) is th

That sounds like you're blaming Fauci for failing to convince Trump? Isn't that backwards? The point to having a head of state (or any senior executive) is that you pick them for the ability to derive input from and synthesize decisions from a large group of experts who can't independently all enforce their own rules. That is the function of a senior executive! I mean... this is The Problem writ small, really. What really happened with why "America Turned Away From Science" isn't anything to do with science at all. It's the the population used to have a sense that there were "experts" out there with a "consensus" on important items. And that consensus went away, as now we have whole media ecosystems whose role is to redirect this kind of consensus building. So Fox, which started as a way to redirect the 70's/80's consensus opinions about, say, the welfare state and Keynsian economics, is now serving to tell people that "the experts" say masks are going to kill them and that the virus is a fraud.