[BroJoeK]

papertyger: "The only reason we have our current level of fractiousness is because “progressives” don’t have to risk their lives and livelihoods propagating their “ideals.”
They’re perfectly willing to put cops and soldiers in harms way to defend gay wedding cakes, but do you think THEY would risk a bullet for such a notion."

Excellent point.
If conservatives can hold majorities long-term, the nation will be reset aright.
But when the Left takes over (as we saw), they employ law-enforcement to oppress conservatives.
But that only works until law enforcement realizes they've been used as partisan political weapons.
Then things can get...ah, unstable...

[papertyger]

But that only works until law enforcement realizes they've been used as partisan political weapons.

Seems to me the police had no real problem being used as partisan political weapons, indeed even as political TARGETS, so long as their benefits package remained secure.

No, the only way to get the police to become "patriots" is to demonstrate to them they will be hunted and harassed to the end of their days for stepping on bourgeois faces.