BILL LEE April. 8, 2020 There was a disturbing story recently about Right-wing groups disgorging all manner of insults and making death threats against Dr. Anthony Fauci the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the USA. (Groth, 2020). But he has also become a public target for conservative pundits and bloggers who say he is undermining the administration. 'One article in the right-wing outlet, American Thinker, called him a “Deep-State Hillary Clinton-loving stooge.'" (Drury, 2002) His offence was, and is, that he has been forced to correct various pieces of misinformation, and often downright inanities, uttered by President Trump about the Covid-19 pandemic, how it works, what its effects are or what should be done about it. The fact that he requires protection is disturbing, to say the least, but the lashing out by right-wing zealots has been a growing and very unhealthy tendency, of the North American Right, and...
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