[General George Brinton] McClellan: The original Fauci

"How serendipitous; reading all the character studies on Mr. Fauci, my thoughts went to Bruce Catton's book, Mr. Lincoln's Army, wherein he details the self-absorbed thoughts of this young general propelled into the national spotlight." [For which he was emotionally unprepared]. 

 J.R. Dunn - American Thinker   

 . . . "has there ever been a previous American as narcissistic as this guy? Well, difficult as it is to believe, there actually was. His name was George B. McClellan, and he was the commander of the Army of the Potomac during the first years of the Civil War."

. . . "That’s right. The entire government -- President Lincoln, the cabinet, and Army chief Gen. Winfield Scott -- all waited anxiously to hear what McClellan had to say, unable to come to a decision or make a move without his go-ahead. And beyond that: ”The people call upon me to save the country -- I must save it and cannot respect anything that is in the way... I have conversation after conversation calling on me to save the nation."

"It goes on like this page after page, one blast of rampant egomania after another. It’s too bad there was no mass media at the time. He’d have had more to write Ellen about.

"And when he wasn’t polishing his halo, he was dropping absolute contempt on everybody he was working with. Winfield Scott, who had served the country for over fifty years, was a “perfect imbecile” and a “traitor.” His nickname for Scott was “Dunky,” which means exactly what you think it does. McClellan worked to undermine Scott with some success – he forced him into retirement in November 1861, taking over as general-in-chief and doing a worse job than Scott had ever done.

"He tried to do the same with Lincoln, whom he dismissed as a “baboon’ and “gorilla.” At one point he told his wife that he had been advised by many people to “take the army and march on Washington.” (Now we know where Mark Milley gets his ideas.) He topped this off by running against Lincoln in 1864, failing in that, too.

"As the song goes, those were different times. So it’s hard to say whether George McClellan actually outdoes Anthony Fauci in the demented, over-the-top narcissist race (at least he didn’t kill as many people). But to my mind, running for the presidency clinches it. Come on, Tony. Go for it. 2028 is right around the corner."  More...