I agree with much of what you said but COVID taught us that there is no law so unjust that there will be no local policemen to enforce it. There will be plenty of them with enough firepower to enforce any law they are instructed to enforce.
COVID taught us that there is no law so unjust that there will be no local policemen to enforce it
Another thing that we learned was that the people in charge have figured out how to exert influence without having to resort to overt police action. They were able to coerce private businesses into enforcing their preferred policies using their regulatory and licensing powers, and by creating new civil liabilities that got businesses large and small to enforce mask mandates and coerce vaccine uptake. They leveraged an army of self-righteous Karens to inform on "transgressors", and collaborated with the social, and legacy media to censor opposing voices. You can also bet that they were taking notes as Canada went even further, de-banking people for daring to have a different opinion than the narrative preferred by the Trudeau government. These less photographable measures were so effective that they only rarely had to resort to overt police action to enforce their rules.