{"id":121509,"date":"2021-04-16T09:57:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T09:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=121509"},"modified":"2021-04-16T09:57:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T09:57:22","slug":"ex-bush-strategist-puts-gop-obsession-with-anthony-fauci-down-to-1-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/ex-bush-strategist-puts-gop-obsession-with-anthony-fauci-down-to-1-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Bush Strategist Puts GOP Obsession With Anthony Fauci Down To 1 Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Dowd, a former strategist for George W. Bush\u2019s 2004 presidential campaign, on Thursday explained\u00a0why Republicans are so obsessed with attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is fundamentally about the attack on science and data and if it doesn\u2019t agree \u2015 from many of the GOP\u2019s perspective as science or data or knowledge or information \u2015 &#8230; with basically their emotional stand, they want to ignore it,\u201d Dowd, now a political analyst for ABC, told CNN\u2019s Erin Burnett.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci, the nation\u2019s top infectious disease expert and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, is \u201ctrying to take a rational approach against people who have an emotional place in this,\u201d Dowd continued.<\/p>\n<p>Dowd said stances taken by GOP lawmakers, such as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) who has clashed with Fauci\ufeff\u00a0pandemic restrictions, had \u201cnothing to do with liberty or freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that\u2019s where we are when we have reason and rationality on one side and emotional reactions and ideology on the other,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matthew Dowd on GOP obsession against Dr. Anthony Fauci\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gzoyJQhCzIA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>RELATED&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A HuffPost Guide To Coronavirus<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do your vaccine side effects predict how you\u2019d react to COVID-19?<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI\u2019ve been sick from COVID-19 for almost a year.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Should children go to camp this summer?<\/li>\n<li>These are the most common ways the COVID-19 pandemic has affected mental health.<\/li>\n<li>\n<span>Find all that and more <\/span><span>on our coronavirus hub page<\/span><span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/gop-obsessed-fauci-matthew-dowd_n_60793599e4b09614f9b43af0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Dowd, a former strategist for George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23055],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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