(21-07-2020, 10:23 AM)thephoenix Wrote: Given how much control the various states have, I doubt any president good/bad/big-handed/little-handed could have done anything ballsy with regards to Covid. The notion of freedoms has been so ingrained in the American psyche that anything that goes against it might as well be WW3.Agreed.
Trump may have been benefited from recognising "reality" but that ship has long since sailed.
Every state seems to be override alot of what congress says, I remember the mayor of new york criticising lockdowns, but in the end they did and that whole state now largely has it under control.