Yeah, I've been making the federalism point for a year, including the fact that we have about 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the US, and the president has no control over about 17,900 of them.
John PfaffThe extent of our federalism was the one thing that "we are Germany in the 1930s" takes have struck me as never engaging with enough. Whatever its legal protections, federalism's single biggest protection has been one of capacity: the Feds are REALLY thinly staffed.