Just a couple of observations from my "mandatory mask" liberal midwest city. By overstepping legitimate authority, my city's council has risked losing all respect for rules in this community. Would you believe even the city parks have signs telling people which direction to walk so they don't end up facing someone else?
However, I see signs of anger and rejection for the "nanny state" rules. The "rules" are getting broken and ignored, even maybe ones that previously seemed to have been followed. Saw evidence of a pretty good sized fire in a public park, for one. Tire tracks and damaged sign (like it had been run into by a vehicle) in a another.
For me, the mask mandate was the red line. Up until that point I ignored, suppressed, dismissed the years of liberal social engineering, anti-Christian persecution and bias (don't expect to get hired in some roles here if you admit you are Christian or conservative), and politics by Democrat "machine".
Not any more. With few exceptions, I don't spend money in this town any more. I won't stay here if Democrats remain in power.
There is one group which it has seemingly always been okay to persecute in this world: Conservative Christians.