“I think this is fundamentally about the attack on science and data and if it doesn’t agree ― from many of the GOP’s perspective as science or data or knowledge or information ― … with basically their emotional stand, they want to ignore it,†Dowd, now a political analyst for ABC, told CNN’s Erin Burnett.
Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, is “trying to take a rational approach against people who have an emotional place in this,†Dowd continued.
Dowd said stances taken by GOP lawmakers, such as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) who has clashed with Fauci pandemic restrictions, had “nothing to do with liberty or freedom.â€
“But that’s where we are when we have reason and rationality on one side and emotional reactions and ideology on the other,†he added.
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