Just because this administration has done such a poor job of it doesn't mean a competent one wouldn't have been able to use the authority given during a crisis

Just because this administration has done such a poor job of it doesn't mean a competent one wouldn't have been able to use the authority given during a crisis to do something effective. I also don't think there is any new law that would need to be enacted to grant additional authority to the executive branch. I agree, they had all the tools in the toolbox before and after the pandemic hit us. I didn't mean to seem to advocate that the executive needed more authority than they already posses, just that the authority they already posses is higher than we would normally be comfortable with without a crisis. I mostly meant that the war analogy is useful from a public perspective, because there are a lot of people who don't think in shades of grey, it's either war or peace, and to get them to do or accept what needs to be done, they need to be motivated.