[munificent]

> Even in an emergency, we'd just see power shift to local state leaders.

That's exactly what we're seeing right now with COVID-19. Since Trump and his troop of baboons have done nothing but throw their own poop around, state governors have stepped up to provide executive leadership. The US has never looked more like a union of independent states to me than it has in the past couple of months.

[rplst8]

In some ways, this could be considered beneficial. There are multiple layers to our government and can be a check on each others' power.

[munificent]

That was supposed to be the job of the legislative and judicial branches, but the Republican Party has reached a point where they would rather undermine the US than give up power.