The father of modern quasi elections on the hot seat, July 29, 2026
First, before I dive headfirst into a lot of bad memories, I’d like to wish a happy 11th birthday to my son, Eli. Eli is a smart kid, likes to play “last one to the truck is a Democrat” to help me hurry his sisters along when they are dragging through the parking lot, and has taken a liking to baseball just like his old man has. Last week, I took him to a Diamondbacks game and joyfully entertained three hours of questions about the grand old game.
As I recount a happy memory with my son and prepare to dish on today’s events, I can’t help but remember a moment that had me livid. It was July 23, 2020, at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., and NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci threw out the ceremonial first pitch for the long-awaited “Opening Day,” which had been pushed back thanks to draconian COVID-19 measures forced down the throats of the American people for what turned out to be the desired impact of throwing the coming election to Joe Biden. He was then spotted in the stands not giving a damn about masking and forgot there would be cameras on him:
“Baseball games for me, but not for thee, peasant. Make sure you figure out how to cut your own hair, replace the six-figure job that just got ripped out from under you, and explain to your children why we destroyed their world for a virus resembling the common cold (and that would come to cause no excess mortality in statistics).”
Straight up French Revolution stuff, right there. I have written about Fauci’s fate under the Trump 47 administration in no uncertain terms:
The One Who Got Away: The Case for A Presidential Proclamation of Treason
Fauci had an early start this morning before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which will undoubtedly obtain many great clips for Senators to circulate for reelection campaigns, while getting zero accountability or exacting zero meaningful consequences. Call it the Gowdy Doctrine, or call it whatever you want. Someone needs to ask my favorite math question related to Fauci’s deliberate botches:
Doctor, why did you make up a social distancing reference of six feet when the rest of the world used two meters? Do you realize that is a difference of six and three-quarters inches? I thought our strain was among the most deadly?
As an elections snob (or “anti-voting activist” as called by Democracy Docket), revisiting Fauci’s impact on public life from 2020-22 enrages me. I remember hearing all the time, “Why doesn’t Trump fire Fauci (and Birx)?” Well, let me answer that for you:
I ignore polling almost completely. I focus on actual votes and legitimate political trends. The map snippet you see above is from Tarrant County, Texas, centered over core Fort Worth and the suburban space to its southwest. Precincts in light yellow are precincts in which President Trump had fewer votes in 2024 than he did in 2020. Precincts in dark yellow are those in which President Trump underperformed his 2016 totals. That’s major GOP atrophy, and those are the voters who had no issue opposing Obama for eight years, but as soon as the GOP emerged with a candidate who said mean things, questioned institutions run by Fauci clones, and got in the ditch with his opponents to punch back, they bolted. My mapping can find them in your counties, too, and they are critical for identifying in modern campaigns (email me at skeshel@protonmail.com for a quote).
Had Trump done what everyone wanted, and unceremoniously shitcanned the little twerp, the pearl clutching GOP coalition would have stood in abject horror as this vaunted member of the valiant medical establishment slinked away to a CNN contributor position. They were the ones, after all, screeching at you on your neighborhood Facebook groups to stop killing grandmas and stop caring so much about your career progress.
That is why Fauci didn’t get fired.
Yet, as I will demonstrate in the balance of this article, Fauci’s legacy with regard to American elections threatens to outlive his tenure as an in-house medical tyrant.
I am reading a fascinating book called How Iceland Changed the World, by Egill Bjarnason. It is centered much more upon history than it is politics, but politics and history are intertwined. No author can fully avoid the topic if he intends to write something worth reading.
After the Icelandic Civil War, a chieftain named Gissur practically relinquished Iceland’s sovereignty to Norway in the years 1262-64. This ended 350 years of self-rule and brought new meaning to what Snorri Sturluson, an Icelandic knight and lawspeaker, wrote in Egil’s Saga:
The king’s treasury has a wide entrance, but a narrow exit.
You hear something similar these days when talking about socialism (“You vote it in but have to shoot your way out”). When remembering Fauci’s role in elections, we are talking about entire blocs of states that have readily received the remedies proposed by the medical establishment in 2020 that will never, under any circumstances, willingly relinquish them (because they are the things that keep them blue).
I wrote this in my book, The American War on Election Corruption:
Up until the 2020 election, only four states (Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Utah) had run all-mail presidential elections. In 2020, many states, such as Nevada, California, New Jersey, and Hawaii, authorized temporary all-mail elections, driving the mail-in share of ballots to 43 percent nationally, when it had been just 21 percent in 2016. The crucial battleground state of Michigan, which had little experience handling mail-in ballots, soared from 25.7 percent mail-in ballots in 2016 to an eye-popping 49.1 percent in 2020.
Now that COVID-19 is a thing of the past, and the news media whores can’t get another viral (pardon the pun) pandemic to latch onto, surely these states would lower the DEFCON rating and return to the old ways of voting, right? Right?
Dead wrong.
Since the 2020 election, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Utah have been joined by Vermont, Hawaii, Nevada, and California as permanent Universal Mail-In Voting states, and if I had to bet, Pennsylvania and Arizona will do everything possible to make it an even 10 if Democrats come to control enough of those states’ governments to make it reality. Then there are states that are a long way from operating Universal Mail-In Voting that still have tainted elections tying directly back to the 2020 overreaction of the ages:
Georgia’s first lurch toward election insanity, in all fairness, wasn’t Fauci’s fault. In October 2016, Georgia implemented Automatic Voter Registration, which didn’t have enough time to get churning to have any impact on the Clinton-Trump contest. Trump won it by 5.1%, with neither campaign committing meaningful resources to the Peach State. By 2020, however, registrations had exploded in the Atlanta metro in a way that made the Obama 2008 campaign look like it came with all the excitement of a bobsledding tournament in Alpharetta.
The massive increase in voter registrations spawned by AVR created the pathway necessary for flipping Georgia to Biden in 2020. All that Biden’s enablers needed were more mail-in ballots, ready hands to gather them, and enough time and distraction to get the count where it needed to be. Enter a 634 percent increase in mail-in balloting from 2016 to 2020 in Georgia.
Georgia, of course, could have been carried by Trump in 2020, and with nothing else changed, Biden would have won the Electoral College 290 to 248; however, grabbing Georgia was critical because Arizona was a catastrophe, and Pennsylvania was highly uncertain all the way up until the last flood of ballots put Biden over the top by 1.2%. When Georgia was put on the “must win” list for Biden (November 4), it was required as a buffer. And so it went.
Conclusion
Though having nothing to do with elected office or elections, Fauci’s constant lies, deliberately misleading advice as proven by his own diary entries, and made up on-the-fly safety standards for a virus resembling the common cold gave all necessary cover for states to loosen their election laws to such an extent that it rendered the 2020 presidential election wholly uncertifiable. Since none of these critical states have reverted to their old ways of running elections (and in many cases are running headlong the other way), it is even more clear that the COVID-19 response was designed to overthrow the presidential election.
Dr. Fauci is a traitor, and unfortunately for our country, is a father of modern American quasi elections without ever knowing it would be part of his job description. Without meaningful action, the COVID-19 response will have greater impact on elections than it did the 2020-22 economy, professional livelihoods, and child development. Someone get me on that Senate panel, ASAP.
Seth Keshel, MBA is a Senior Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy and a retired Army Captain. He publishes Captain K’s Corner on Substack.
