Dr. Fauci just keeps speaking the plain truth, and still, the Trump cult worshippers seek to villlainize him

He was just speaking with his customary candor:

Dr. Anthony Fauci said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday that "no one is going to deny" that more lives could have been saved during the coronavirus crisis if the Trump administration had implemented social distancing guidelines prior to March.

Why it matters: The New York Times reported Saturday that the administration’s top public health experts, including Fauci, concluded on Feb. 21 that the U.S. would need to move toward aggressive social distancing even if it would disrupt the economy and millions of American lives.

• The National Security Council office that tracks pandemics received intelligence reports in early January that predicted the virus would spread to the United States, per the Times.
• It began raising options like keeping Americans home from work and shutting down cities the size of Chicago to stop the spread of the virus. The White House ultimately did not announce social distancing guidelines until March 16.

What they're saying: "As I've said many times, we look at it from a pure health standpoint," Fauci said. "We make a recommendation. Often the recommendation is taken. Sometimes it's not. But it is what it is. We are where we are right now."

• "I mean, obviously you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated."

But the throne sniffers are out in force on Twitter, portraying him as being motivated by a desire to subvert the Very Stable Genius. 

The past six weeks have done nothing to diminish their worship of the man-child in the Oval Office.

It's true that most of the media - save for the Trumpist outlets and networks - leans left. They have for decades. They had it in for Reagan and both Bushes. They have it in for Trump for two reasons: the fact that he won the last election and the Democrat didn't, which always fuels their aggressive bias. and the fact that anybody - left, right, or in between - whose eyeballs are not floating in Kool-Aid can see how obnoxious and off-putting he is.

But that's at most half the story. Trumpists are every bit as unhelpful in this crisis.