Note that federalism is much more vulnerable to local interests. So instead of having to watch out for “Big- whatever” bending the State to their will, “microlo

Note that federalism is much more vulnerable to local interests. So instead of having to watch out for “Big- whatever” bending the State to their will, “microlocal” governments can fall prey of laughably small interest groups (see the Covid outbreak in Lombardy: just a couple local businesses interfered enough to procrastinate lockdown until their products shipped. It cost thousands of deaths)