where they probably miscalculated was on the death of ideological resistance to the vaccine that it's going to develop primarily in red america. and they have been reluctant to take steps that would provoke that resistance, in particular the one you mentioned of requiring proof of vaccination for interstate travel including getting on a flight. now they have kind of moved toward a more aggressive posture with the mandates for health care workers and large employers, but that triggered exactly the kind of reaction we're talking about with coalitions of republican states many of which have the highest case loads, high death rates, going to court and successfully so far stymieing their effort to impose these mandates, and ultimately it's going to be the supreme court, the six republican justice on the supreme court to decide how far they can go. the biggest reason for i believe his decline in approval rating is, laura, the shattering of the expectation people had in the spring that once we had the