trying to wrap my head around why everything in the US is turned into a political battle--from the most trivial culture war stuff to major national crises such as the response to COVID-19. Is it a Gramscian thing where a ruling class in crisis is unable to maintain ideological hegemony?
The level of government intervention at both the federal and state level to resolve this crisis is just not available in America. So the only way to treat this was to decouple responsibility at all levels.