James Madison knew the antidote for Dr. Faucis COVID tyranny

Anthony Fauci, the public health bureaucrat who became the face of America’s botched COVID-19 response, testified last week on Capitol Hill.Except Fauci actually didn’t testify: In an astonishing act of hubris and disdain for the countless Americans who bore the brunt of tyrannical COVID-era “Faucism,” the mad doctor invoked the Fifth Amendment well over 100 times.It’s an unprecedented defiance of congressional will for a man who has already received a sweeping presidential pardon.Congress would do well to vote to hold Fauci in contempt.Wednesday’s intense senatorial standoff followed Kentucky Sen.

Rand Paul’s earlier release of damning excerpts of Fauci’s diary.Those excerpts revealed a man obsessed with his burgeoning self-image.Fauci also harbored grave private doubts about many key COVID-era disputes, such as the virus’ hotly contested origins, on which the longtime National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director otherwise projected a sense of confidence to a wary public.In short, this past week painted a vivid James Bond villain-like picture of the power-hungry “elf” who personified COVID hell for so many.In lecturing Americans to shut up and simply “trust the science,” Fauci committed the fallacy of scientism: He conflated science with the public good that statesmen are tasked with securing.Moreover, Fauci’s one-man reign of COVID-era biomedical terror served as a capstone on the century-long administrative-state project of empowering would-be elites in Washington over the judgments of the people.But not every American was equally subjected to Fauci’s overweening, politically expedient and often-changing dictates.We have our Founders to thank for that: Federalism mitigated the burdens of Faucism for the many Americans fortunate enough to live in states whose political leadership defied prevailing COVID-era biomedical despotism.I would know: I moved to Florida in 2021 in no small part due to the way Gov.Ron DeSanti...