Thanks for this essay. I’m sad but hopeful that this outrageous behavior will be their undoing. Not holding my breath, though. It’s moments like this that I think of historian Joanne Freeman’s repeated reminder that we are living in a moment of extreme contingency. The massive shifts in our society occurred in times such as this—shifted on contingency, the unpredictable.
Fauci said in an earlier hearing that Rand Paul didn’t know what he was talking about. So here’s — on one level a personal grudge — threatening an honest civil servant’s freedom. I agree that this is larger than Fauci, but it’s also smaller, petty ...
I did not include that, but I think you are right. In the same way Trump was motivated by being humiliated by Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Paul has held a years long grudge after Fauci called him a liar.
Thanks for this essay. I’m sad but hopeful that this outrageous behavior will be their undoing. Not holding my breath, though. It’s moments like this that I think of historian Joanne Freeman’s repeated reminder that we are living in a moment of extreme contingency. The massive shifts in our society occurred in times such as this—shifted on contingency, the unpredictable.
Also, these are times where we discover who we really are, ourselves and each other.
Did anyone step up to defend Joseph McCarthy's victims? Should they have? Who is similarly positioned to defend Dr. Fauci? Is this happening?
Fauci said in an earlier hearing that Rand Paul didn’t know what he was talking about. So here’s — on one level a personal grudge — threatening an honest civil servant’s freedom. I agree that this is larger than Fauci, but it’s also smaller, petty ...
I did not include that, but I think you are right. In the same way Trump was motivated by being humiliated by Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Paul has held a years long grudge after Fauci called him a liar.