The Inevitability of Fauci’s Arrogance

Friday, July 31, 2026

Fauci’s diaries are a monument to self-absorbed arrogance.  His testimony this week, or lack thereof actually – particularly in his invoking the Fifth Amendment when questioned on the day of the week and color of his tie, was contemptuous beyond compare.  I have been harping all week that his display is a symptom, not the disease, but that does not change the fact that his display was breathtakingly awful.  It was also predictable – not because of who Fauci is, but because who Fauci is is an inevitable outcome of the direction our culture has been proceeding for some time now.

Fauci lied – a lot, but he did so, according to his own account for noble purpose.    The so-called “noble lie” can find its pretended nobility only in moral relativism.  “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,” is a moral absolute.  Churchill’s famed “bodyguard of lies” was also an exercise in moral relativism.  And while it was absolutely necessary in its time and place, we see in appeal to it in these more recent circumstances that even it came with ignoble consequences.

But moral relativism is an entirely foreseeable outcome of an age without God.  Absolute morality demands absolute authority behind it.  Any authority less than deity is also less than absolute and so morality becomes relative until it becomes absent.

Astute listeners to Wednesday’s show heard a certain pity for Fauci from the host as he questioned guest after guest if the testimony had invoked any sympathy in them.  Fauci had far more at stake in that hearing than simply his reputation, or even criminal charges.  Fauci’s entire sense of self was in the dock.  Had he admitted to any wrong-doing, in any fashion…had he been anything less than totally and thoroughly contemptuous, his entire ego structure would have collapsed before our eyes.  It would have been a display akin to an alcoholic “hitting bottom” and if you have never witnessed such a display, count your blessings.

Fauci’s ego structure is clearly built entirely on the foundation of his accomplishment.  Most of us, of course, take pride in our accomplishments. But with Fauci it reaches a different level – he simply is his accomplishments.  Without them, and the hearings most certainly threatened them, he ceases to exist in his own mind.  This sense of self stands in sharp contrast to most of us who are rooted in family and hopefully in God’s unending and infinite grace.

Accomplishment is most fleeting.  As a single example, decades ago I was involved in drafting a particular set of California regulations, doing my best to moderate their impact on the regulated community.  I was lauded by industry associations and regulators alike.  As they were rolled out, I wrote a book on the requirements of the regs – a book long since out of print.  Yesterday I received a call from a local inspector charged with enforcing those regulations who proceeded to “teach me” the requirements of the regulations as if I had no idea whatsoever.  So much for that accomplishment.  Clearly our sense of self needs to be rooted in something much deeper and more reliable.

Even family, where most of us find that sense of self, can disappoint.  That’s why Disney movies are now an endless search for finding that sense of family outside the traditional family – because families disappoint and Disney has no vision for where else to turn.  Sadly, were those Disney tales to be carried forward, I am confident the found family will disappoint as much as the genetic one.  A lasting and solid ego structure needs a foundation more reliable than even family.

That’s where God comes into the picture.  God, whose grace is infinite and reliable even when I disappoint Him terribly.  God who is Alpha and Omega, who cannot die.  There is a reliable foundation for an ego structure.  And better yet that foundation comes with a built-in sense of humility, knowing that all of it is owed to someone else.

Yesterday, I quoted Glenn Reynold as declaring Fauci the “apotheosis” of the power mad ambitions of our liberal elites.  That word means, “the perfect form or example of something.”  Fauci is indeed such.  But he is the apotheosis of more than Reynolds imagines.  He is the apotheosis of a person whose life has been lived without God.  Most of us think of the irreligious as those mired in addiction or similar awful circumstance.  But such is far from the case.  Even the high-functioning suffer the consequences of a life without a Lord – they are just different consequences.

Anthony Fauci and his actions are unforgivable on the public stage.  But in private and on a personal level, they are quite pitiable.  What remains of his life is destined to be quite miserable, his wealth accumulated at our expense notwithstanding.  That is unless he finds God, and I, for one, pray that he does.