As the CEO of a public policy group in the Free State of Florida, one that has worked on health policy for nearly 30 years, I have never met Dr. Anthony Fauci. Yet as someone who has spent much of my career engaged in this arena, I read over, with interest, the inner thoughts he chose to type into his taxpayer-owned computer, particularly his feelings for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), coupled with the 111 times he chose to invoke his Fifth Amendment privileges before a Senate committee hearing. I had a re-epiphany of sorts. While I want to direct 100% of my ire at the man who arbitrarily altered people’s lives, ended careers, delayed critical health treatments, and dared anyone to question him, we should also place much of our righteous indignation toward the system and culture he personifies — a swamp bureaucracy unaccountable to voters that yet holds unimaginable influence over our daily lives.Our organization, The James Madison Institute, is named for the man credited with authoring much of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The protections guaranteed by those documents, including the right against self-incrimination, are sacrosanct. I would never argue — publicly or privately — for diluting those. Fauci is free to invoke that right. My speculation, based purely on what we have all seen thus far, is that his decision was personally wise.