The missing point is, these “mandates” are state-issued, not federally ordered. Fed gov has no business ordering citizens around like they do.
A major part of President Trump's plans was drastically downsizing the federal government ... Hence the impeachments, the cheating, and the scamdemic.
The federal government is like a big, old, lumbering, corrupt beast that knows its time has long passed but will fight to the end to maintain its control.