VDH: A Revolution of Hoaxes and Lies

The brand of all cultural revolutions is untruth about the past and present in order to control the future. Why we have let this happen to our country is the only mystery left.

by Victor Davis Hanson
July 10, 2020

The current revolution is based on a series of hoaxes, lies, misrepresentations, and distortions, whose weight will soon sink it.

Viral confusion

Unfortunately few in authority have been more wrong, and yet more self-righteously wrong, than the esteemed Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Given his long service as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and his stature during the AIDS crisis, he has  been held up by the media as the gold standard of coronavirus information.

The media has constructed Fauci as a constant corrective of Trump’s supposed “lies” about the utility of travel bans, analogies with a bad flu year, and logical endorsement of hydroxychloroquine as a “what do you have to lose” possible therapy.

But the omnipresent Fauci himself unfortunately has now lost credibility. The reason is that he has offered authoritative advice about facts, which either were not known or could not have been known at the time of his declaratio…