So basically: “comply willingly with our executive decree or we will fuck all your shit up.”

No. For multiple reasons:

• Vaccines are not 100% effective. They reduce the likelihood of infection if you are exposed. The whole point of trying to get everyone vaccinated is to reduce the infection rate so that there’s less likely to be an outbreak. With a vaccinated population, the virus can’t spread fast enough to maintain a pool of infected people to keep spreading it. But that doesn’t mean nobody gets sick.
• Vaccines are not as effective on some people. There’s a range of effectiveness.
• Not everyone can get vaccinated. People with certain allergies or compromised immune systems in particular.
• Some parts of the population have higher risk factors than others and when they get sick it can be much more serious. Usually the very old and the very young. And again, people with compromised immune systems, or other conditions that complicate the illness.
• Kids whose parents refuse to get them vaccinated are put at elevated risk through no fault of their own.

I could probably keep going, but hopefully you get the idea why that’s just not a viable approach.

The United States v Trump ruling was that a president can not be held criminally liable for their exercise of the powers of the presidency.

But they left it wide open for interpretation of exactly what it means to exercise the powers of the presidency, which was the whole point of the case. No reasonable interpretation would include “encouraging an angry mob to storm the capitol building” but here we are.

Courts can still rule that a president’s actions are illegal and order injunctions, or even find contempt if court orders are not followed. This has already happened several times in the last month.

And when I see someone successfully enforce one of those injunctions, court orders, or contempt charges, and it stands against appeal, I will happily agree that the justice system has not been completely kneecapped.

I really do hope you’re right and I’m blowing this out of proportion. I’m just not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel right now.

It wouldn’t matter. The Supremes decreed that he can do whatever the fuck he wants so long as an argument can be made that it was related to his duties as president. Constitutional limitations on the office of president mean nothing anymore until that decision is overturned.