I mean if you're if you're done with politics and you just want to be in charge Forever by force then no one can be allowed to contest the leader or to question the leader importantly nobody can be allowed to offer any alternative source of authority to the leader so there can't be journalists who know stuff and report it there of course can't be opposition politicians are you kidding there can't ever be anyone who runs against him that would mean taking your life in your hands there can't be law enforcement that does anything independent of what the leader wants the whole government has to work entirely for the leader there's no you know government providing information and services like we're used to there's no State there's just the Deep state which is terrible and evil and against the leader and it must be purged replaced just with people he likes and who do what he wants the government cannot have a civil service that has subject matter experts because everybody has to work only for the leader we should be recommending you to be prosecuted we should be writing a criminal referral because you should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity you belong in prison Dr fouchi in the Trump era in the Republican party this is what it's like to be the nation's most esteemed Public Health official the nation's top subject matter expert on infectious disease Dr Anthony fouchy was the head of the National Institute of allergy and infectious disease for 38 years he has a new book that's out tomorrow it's called on call a doctor's journey in public service and in that book he says that in the quote early days of the HIV aids pandemic the aggressive hate mail that he got was quote homophobic motivated criticizing me for wasting time trying to save mostly gay men who quote brought this all on themselves by their supposedly aberant Behavior with the Bold he says the hate male seem to be related to the perception by white supremacist types that I favored black Africans over the health of our country so that's the kind of hate mail he got in the AIDS era that's the kind of hate mail that he got in the Imola era but in this era in response to our most recent infectious disease threat in the context of the Trump movement on the American political right now the torrent of hate and threat is of a different order and a different magnitude it needs to be dealt with the criminal gang leaders the big heads of the central banks uh fiser head uh fouchy all of them that lied to Trump we know created the disinfo already had the vaccine ready years before they released the virus they all need to go to prison for the rest of their lives it is the right thing to do that they be executed I'm not a wimp I will volunteer I think it should be public I will pull the lever I will say that I don't know a blood Lush but I don't want people to do work I wouldn't do in Dr fouche's new book he tells the story of his decades in public service serving seven different presidents starting with Ronald Reagan helping lead the response not only to HIV and AIDS domestically and around the globe but also to Ebola and also zika and also SARS and also even the anthrax attacks after 9911 it's a 450 page book it comes out tomorrow as I mentioned it is fascinating every new crisis is a detect story and a science Thriller and a political pot boiler all rolled into one but the last hundred Pages or so are about the covid crisis and also about serving trying to handle the covid crisis under the most recent Republican president under Donald Trump and even though that part of Dr fouche's career in public service is over he retired in 2022 after serving as President Biden's chief medical adviser even though he is out of Public Service after all of these decades the Trump movement and its members in Congress and its supporters in the media are still going after Dr fouchi as aggressively as ever if not more so even two years after he left government because he epitomizes one of the things they are trying to destroy one of the things that they need to destroy in their revolutionary war against the American system of government it is not that they disagree with him it is not that they misunderstand it is that he represents expertise Authority earned by expertise the way we use the way we we we sort of shorthand that in life is that he's a person who knows what he's talking about and that of course is toxic for their political project that cannot be allowed to stand and so he is still in the bullseye for them even now this is from the book this is from August of of 2020 he says quote I had been absent for work for a few days because I had a benign pop removed from one of my vocal cords I was just getting back into the swing of things happy to be sitting at my desk in my office going through a mail that had piled up it was about 10:30 a.m. when I picked up a letter off of one of the stacks the envelope bore a Jacksonville Florida return address it was typewritten in an unusual font but otherwise looked like the fan mail that I got every day most of the time people ask me to sign a baseball card or an index card sometimes occasionally he says quote they told me they hated me I opened the top of the envelope with a letter opener and took out a single sheet of folded white paper as I unfolded it fine white powder shot up from the paper and drifted down onto my face my tie my shirt my hands my pants my desk and my chair I instantly feared Anthrax or worse I immediately shouted to my assistant Kim do not come into my office go get George and Brett my security detail who were posted down the hall they sprinted to the doorway doorway of my office yelling don't move stay where you are don't come out because you will contaminate everything else following their instructions I put the letter and envelope into a plastic bag for forensics George called the NIH HazMat team who came to my office in their space suits they had me remove all of my clothes which also went into a plastic bag and they sprayed me down with chemical foam I thought this is insane there I was standing naked being sprayed down by guys in space suits my fate hinged on a call giving me a preliminary analysis of the powder there were three possibilities it was a hoax and merely a harmless powder it was Anthrax spores and I would require four weeks of the antibiotic cypro but would probably survive or it was ryen and no matter what I did I would be dead in a few days Ryon which is formed from the seeds of castor beans is lethal when inhaled or injected Christine Dr fouche's wife and our daughters were terrified that I might die Jenny was also Furious which was probably a reflection of her fear and concern for me Megan and Ally called multiple times asking dad are you all right are you all right they all dreaded that I might say I was starting to feel sick my own emotions were complicated I felt like a complete idiot for opening what in retrospect was a suspicious letter and I was fatalistic about the outcome my mother died at age 56 my father at 97 at age 79 myself I'd lived a long full happy life of achievement my legal papers were in order because they're always in order as a physician I've held the hands of many people as they died I do not fear death but I was not ready to leave this earth yet not by a long shot should go without saying that this should not be something that happens in the life of a public servant of a public health official but here we are 1.2 million Americans have died from covid Dr fouche's book explains the government's response the challenge of dealing with a literally novel Corona virus something new learning as we go he also tells the story of trying to build a government response with a President Who literally did not understand what was going on in some very fundamental ways who told him told Dr fouchy for example that he didn't understand why he would get a flu shot if he did not have the flu as if he did not understand the difference between a treatment and a vaccine a president who asked why the flu vaccine couldn't just be used to prevent covid as if he didn't understand that diseases and viruses are different from one another a president who believed a Fox News host Laura Ingram when she told him that there was a secret miracle cure for covid a president who didn't understand how clinical studies disproving that had any more validity than what had been heard on the grapevine from someone he saw on the Fox News who had no subject matter expertise and it got worse from there this is also from Dr foub quote on April 22nd I attended a task force meeting where we were briefed by William n Brian acting under secretary for Science and Technology at the Department of Homeland Security Brian explained two studies that showed how sunlight and humidity could kill the virus and substances such as isopropyl alcohol and disinfectants could be used effectively to clean non-porous surfaces the following day he briefed the president and the Oval Office on these studies without Deborah Burks or me being present he then joined the president on the podium in the briefing room the result was the infamous press conference where Donald Trump appeared to endorse using bleach as a way to disinfect the lungs from covid the president told the press the White House Press Corps quote then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute one minute and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs so it would be interesting to check that Dr fouchi says I was not at that day's press briefing but as I watched it on TV I thought oh my God poor Deb meaning Deborah Burks being on stage with the president during that musing she must have been horrified and given her military background it would have been difficult for her to contradict the commander-in-chief especially publicly she looked as if she wanted to be any place other in the world but there sitting in front of the television I knew we were going to have people who heard that from the president and would then go ahead and try it my phone immediately exploded with texts and calls asking me to comment I instantly realized that I and other scientists had to counter this message to keep Americans from ingesting bleach which could literally kill them Dr Anthony fouchy is in the bullseye of the Trump movement to this day as they seek to return to power he's in the bullseye of the Trump movement even after leaving the government and it is not because of Co and it is not because of the controversial and difficult decisions of this most recent epidemic threat that he helped the country face down he has faced down plenty of those in his 54 years at NIH what he's facing now is a political movement that cannot abide Public Health expertise at all because it cannot abide expertise at all because that competes with the truths that are spouted from the head of the leader it is a movement that cannot abide Authority and ex expertise from anyone other than their leader and they answer any such competition for him with Menace and it's not romantic and it may be revolutionary but there's nothing sexy or dramatic or lovely about it it is boring it is violent and it's about using force and it's a war against the US system of government we're living through an era in our country's political life right now which is not politics and if you want to call it the most romantic possible thing I think you could call it revolutionary right just like gangsterism is a familiar Trope for us in our favorite American Drama We also romanticize Revolution and revolutionaries as much as any country on Earth but what we are contending with in our politics right now is a movement that is not doing normal politics and is not competing in normal political terms they're trying to end the American system of government they're trying to bring about a revolution against the American system of government and against the United States of America and in this story we're the Americans so yes you know being revolutionary sounds very cool in the abstract just like you know being gangster sounds is very cool in the abstract but in the specific what they're actually offering is boring because it's just gross Force it's the end of politics let's just let's just do it by force because physically we mean it just the way we say we we're saying it we mean it just the way you're hearing it we are we're we're coming for you so brother you and all the other people the torturous these are torturous conversations we're having don't torture yourself don't torture yourself get your passport get the hell out of the country cuz hey we're coming and guess what bro you ain't going to like it one bit your crimes and your treason Comey all of you go ahead go go to the ends of the Earth we will hunt you down and bring you back Drive the Vermin out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Biden you and your crime family are nothing but trash for Joe Biden and uh and uh and Dr Joe Biden and Hunter Biden all in the B there're a bunch of feral dogs right that's a family of feral dogs we're going to have to fum we're going have to fumigate the lies of Joe Biden the treason of Joe Biden and how in feable is after that it's not the tapes we're coming after Lisa Monaco Meritt Garland the senior members of doj that have prosecuted president Trump Jack Smith that's where you come in you're the Vanguard of this revolution we're going to do what the Romans did to Carthage we're going to Salt the Earth around it so there'll never be another building there again we're going to rebuild something else there'll be something that comes up and rebuilt along the lines that's appropriate we've got to go back to the beginning we've got to go back to Russia gate we got to go back to who did that we got to go back to mola's commission we got to go back to Andrew Weissman and MSNBC in the New York Times and all of it right and every FBI agent all the CIA DHS Chris Ray all of them it's going to be a new day in Maga will run things they're going to know that Maga is not only ascendant Maga is in charge it's very simple Victory or death so this isn't you know red meat for the base this isn't retribution right this is this is retribution as much as Tony Soprano's dad was providing protection to the local butcher this is not a response to anything what this is is just Menace and physical threat right it's not politics it's just power it's just force they're just promising violence that is what they're offering in this election that this is how we should run the country now we will hunt you down and you'll know that we're in power and we're going to get rid of law enforcement we're going to the Earth and we're just going to hunt you down I mean and this is not some random right-wing media Guy this is this is the man who was the campaign manager for Donald Trump and also the senior White House adviser to the former president who is now their nominee again and it is it's not like he's the only one who's saying this thing this is what they are offering the American public and they love it they're super excited to be getting you know done with politics getting right to the force and violence part of it the next six months is going to be intense and we need to strap on our uh let's see what do we want to strap on we're going to strap on our our seat Bel we're going to put on our Helmet or your car Lake ball cap we are going to put on the armor of God and maybe strap on a Glock on the side of us just in case we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country we will route the fake news media and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all don't you think for a second he's not going to unleash hell on all of his political enemies this is where we are and now we have to finish it we have to finish it once and for all they keep saying things like that once and for all finish it thanish them right this is not politics in a political contest you compete against your fellow citizens with whom you have political disagreements you know the Rival political party whoever loses that fair race concedes literally concedes and then they come back they have the opportunity to come back in the next election cycle and compete against you again in real politics nothing's ever finished you never take power once and for all your enemies are not vanquished but they are not trying to win a political contest they are trying to do away with political contests in the United States of America which might be why they're not putting much energy into the normal way of competing in this year's political contest you may have seen this weekend former president went to Detroit which of course seems like a normal thing for a political candidate to do big city and a big swing state and he went to a black church trying to appeal to a demographic where he has Room to Grow but he goes to this black church in Detroit and his campaign does not take any steps to avoid the pews being completely filled with white people with white Trump supporters then on the day the message of his supposed campaign is that he's trying to appeal to Black voters right that's the whole point of doing this photo op he then goes straight from that venue stuffed with white people uh to a conference hosted by this guy who has been in the news for the last few months um for saying quote we made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s saying that he thinks black people are not qualified to be airline pilots that he worries if he's on a flight and sees that the pilot is black who has been posting things like quote whiteness is great on social media who has been hosting guests on his podcast to talk about how black people are inherently biologically inferior and incapable of advanced intelligence someone who said literally MLK meaning Dr Martin Luther King Jr quote MLK was awful not a good person so on the day your campaign message is hey black voters look at me aren't I appealing going from the black per black church that's inexplicably full of white people right to right from there to go be with to go do an appearance with the the MLK was awful and the Civil Rights Act was a mistake guy if that's how you're running your campaign you are not trying very hard in normal campaign terms but they are not trying very hard in normal campaign terms they're trying they not trying very hard to compete on on on normal political appeals what they are trying to do instead is take power by menacing and chasing out of the country anyone who opposes their leader right destroy anyone who contradicts him let you know let alone anyone who DS to compete against him e