Colbert, Fauci, and the Externalization of Mental Illness

Many Americans suffer from anxiety disorders or have mind-bending insecurities. It’s sad. And broadly consequential.

I heard that Steven Colbert had Tony Fauci on his show last week. Though I seldom watch TV, I wondered how either of these two individuals might now explain their prior promotion of injections that have not only failed but have been temporally linked to tens of thousands of serious injuries, deaths and declining fertility. So I viewed these cheesy twelve TV minutes on YouTube; at 2x speed, so as not to waste any more time than I had to.

Mental illness was on full display.

To begin, the plainly anxiety-ridden Colbert introduced Fauci as the government official “whose level-headed guidance took us through the Pandemic.”