Fauci says there ought to be a federal stay-at-home order: "I don't understand why that's not happening." pic.twitter.com/ShqNsugHoD— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) April 3, 2020
Such an order is unenforceable. However, as DeSantis in Florida showed, such an order would give cover to GOP governors afraid to yet shut down their states (how they are "open for business" with 38 states shut down is another question).
There's a simple reason Trump won't do it: it would make Trump directly responsible.
Pay attention to Trump's "arguments" (I use the term loosely) about supplies from the "stockpile." He never takes responsibility for the collapse of that stockpile; he blames the states for not planning ahead and being better prepared. He won't invoke the DPA because then he'd have to know how to do it, and have people who knew how to implement and oversee it. He's be responsible, IOW. He won't do anything concrete about coronavirus testing, even though that's the province of the CDC and the FDA, because then he'd be responsible for the failures of that testing. He keeps saying the tests are available and accessible and even magical (the failure rate is up to 1/3 false negatives, per reporting) because he can't be responsible for failure. And it seems clear he can't be responsible not because it pains him to say he failed, but because he can't accept that he could fail. Everyone else fails, Trump never fails; he is only failed.
We're waste deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool says "Move on!"
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