No disagreement on your points; we have a "leader" who has precisely 0 desire to lead, and 100% desire to seen as a leader, to inflate his ego. To do so require

No disagreement on your points; we have a "leader" who has precisely 0 desire to lead, and 100% desire to seen as a leader, to inflate his ego. To do so requires fawning attention, deflecting blame, and avoiding hard decisions. However, even in states that are taking strong stances, they're all at least slightly different, and I still have a sense that they're all sort of biding time until some "adults" come along and provide leadership from the top, because that's how it's always worked in the past.