After more than a year after Americans were told “two weeks to stop the spread,” it’s no wonder that faith in Dr. Fauci continues to plummet. Recent polls reveal that Americans say their confidence in Dr. Fauci has gone down in the past year.

According to Townhall:

One, from the Trafalgar Group, found that almost double the amount of overall likely voters said their confidence in Dr. Fauci had decreased in the past year as it had increased, by 42.2 percent to 22.1 percent. A plurality of respondents, at 30.1 percent, said their confidence had “decreased significantly,” while 26.1 percent said their confidence was “unchanged.”

The poll was conducted May 16-May 18 with 1,093 respondents of likely voters, with 2.96 percent margin of error. Like most polls, Democrats were oversampled, making the decrease in confidence from overall respondents all the more noteworthy. The respondent breakdown was 39.3 percent Democrats, 35.6 percent Republicans, and 25.1 percent who were categorized as “non-partisan/other.”

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Then there’s a poll from Yahoo! News/YouGov. The headline there is with how Republican respondents regard Fauci, in a poll of 1,561 adults, conducted May 11-May 13.

Respondents were indeed asked “Which comes closest to your view of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s impact during the pandemic,” with one option that he heled more than hurt and another hurt more than helped. Sixty percent of Republicans indeed said that he hurt more than helped.

Dr. Fauci has become an increasingly controversial figure in recent months because of his constant flip-flopping when discussing Coronavirus. Many have accused the disease expert of moving the goal post and not listening to the science while being more concerned about the optics surrounding him. Recently, Fauci revealed to a reporter that he did indeed keep wearing a mask despite being fully vaccinated and having little-to-no risk of contracting Covid because of optics.