Dr, Fauci and Mr. Drumpf

Dr. Anthony Fauci is the Donald Drumpf the left always imagined Trump to be.

The trove of documents Rand Paul described as Fauci’s “diary” – really just notes for an eventual memoir – show that Fauci’s inner monologue was so self effusive, self congratulatory, and hyperbolic it would make Trump’s outer monologue blush.

Discussing Trump’s eventual turn on him, Fauci referred to himself as “the most credible scientist in the world.” He called himself “the most famous and talked about person in the world.” He recounted with bizarre self aggrandizement finding prayer beads with a picture of himself depicted as a Catholic saint.

We always knew Fauci was duplicitous. We’ve known for years that he lied about the lab leak, his role funding the Wuhan lab, his role in gain of function research and his role in the misinformation campaign — and so on. While I think it’s quite worthwhile to make hay out of all that – especially his concession that most scientists believed the virus was engineered from the start – none of that is news to me.

Should he go to jail for all of it? Absolutely. Nevertheless, the most revealing element of all these new documents to me is just how psychologically deranged Anthony Fauci the man is on the inside. He believed himself to be godlike. He had no business leading anything. We had every reason to be skeptical, aggressively so.