I didn’t say it’d work great. I’m talking about what’s legally possible to do.
The US federal government is in many ways prevented from doing the right things by the details of its constitution. Even when the Supreme Court is genuinely following it, there’s a bunch of stuff in there that lets individual states do crazy stupid things that the federal government can’t really stop. So even given the powers that OP has given me in this scenario there’s some big limits to what can be done. If he was to give me the ability to amend the constitution or control the state governments I’d be able to do a lot more.
I didn’t say it’d work great. I’m talking about what’s legally possible to do.
The US federal government is in many ways prevented from doing the right things by the details of its constitution. Even when the Supreme Court is genuinely following it, there’s a bunch of stuff in there that lets individual states do crazy stupid things that the federal government can’t really stop. So even given the powers that OP has given me in this scenario there’s some big limits to what can be done. If he was to give me the ability to amend the constitution or control the state governments I’d be able to do a lot more.