Con Artists and Crackpots

July 31, 2026

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You can tell populism is enjoying a productive week when the White House Correspondents’ Dinner isn’t the most self-discrediting display by the elite in the past seven days.

That moment arrived on Wednesday, when the COVID czar, Anthony Fauci, was summoned before a Senate committee to explain why certain public statements from the pandemic era did not align with the notes he kept in his private diary at the time.

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