I just wish the president had stopped a lot of interstate travel and for those still permitted to travel have strict rules. People pour into my state spreading the virus. They bring it back home with them from my state too.
I wish masks were promoted from the beginning. This is a failure not just of Trump.
I’m not so sure Trump deeming it a states rights issue is the problem. If everything was being done at the federal level what would be the rules? Trump would be making the orders across the board? There wouldn’t be no mask order in any part of the country probably. The initial stay at home and lockdown would have happened, but everything after that would have been open full force.
I feel like Democrats forget that if the president had been in total control there would likely be fewer orders across the country unless states were allowed to go stricter than the president.
Democrats also complain Trump is authoritarian and yet he allowed states to handle COVID fairly autonomously. Probably, he didn’t have much choice. The president can only do so much legally I’m guessing.