Hey, Slatter-Cristy, welcome back to Road to Midterms. If you're watching this on the TV

right now, this is our Politics by Faith segment. It's the name of our podcast. This is an

abbreviated version of that podcast, where we take a story that's causing anxiety and we give some historical perspective and biblical peace to make the anxiety go away. That's our goal. It's too much anxiety. We're wound too tight. Everyone needs to relax. But how can we do that? That's the goal of the podcast. If you're listening to this on the podcast, I think, well, hold on, this sounds different. It is different. I'm standing up, and we have a different microphone.

So it sounds different.

But this is the last segment of our TV show that we're doing up until November 8th,

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Fauci said that the response to COVID was politicized

because of what he called a triple whammy.

Here he is.

It got political very, very quickly

because we had the misfortune of an outbreak

and a double misfortune of an outbreak

in a divided society and the triple misfortune of an outbreak in a divided society

and the triple misfortune of a divided society

in an election year.

It was a triple whammy.

Yeah, that's probably right, actually, what he said there.

That's probably right.

But I want to put more of an emphasis on the fact that

Trump was the president at the time, and the media decided to hate him constantly and to be

against everything he was for and for everything he was against. That's the important variable

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