Conservatives, many of whom are aging and especially women, and therefore vulnerable, are going to have to find courage which they have not until recently had to rely on. I think of my former, elderly landlord neighbor, who would not cross anyone for fear that he would be followed home and robbed or assaulted. This fear has to end, or we are lost.
Fear played a very large part in the destruction -- it wasn't a "dissolution" or "fall" or "transformation" -- of the Roman Republic. Julius Caesar used mobs to deprive his enemies (people he called "enemies" because they upheld the Republic) of the use of the streets at night. When Cicero took the Catalinarian conspirators to prison, he needed a large crowd of senators and armed men to protect him from Caesar's and Clodius's gangs of former gladiators and mustered-out legionaries who carried fullsized swords under their cloaks. Marc Antony came up politically through this route, helping Caesar and his ally Marcus Caelius run the Mob -- which is what this gang really was.
Women more than men are going to need courage, too -- or need men, something a lot of women haven't admitted, or have pretended they don't need.