If you remember the beginning of COVID when the MSM here was blowing China for "how great it handled the virus in its borders and ended it quickly" there was direct mention that the US needed to follow China's lead and pass rules/regulations/laws and use the military to enforce them in order to end the virus here.

They were priming us to accept authoritarian rule for "our safety."

This COVID exercise proved many Americans will go along with that plan (to a point.) After a certain point, most will say "screw it". You'll still have stragglers that treat COVID like it is religion, but they are falling apart. .

It is in our nature to be ungovernable. During Washington's first term he had to put down a rebellion started by patriots.