Your argument falls apart in light of the fact that the compromised tactics you’re defending simply don’t work. We have about forty years worth of proof of that.
You reap what you sow. It’s always been true, and it always will be.
Any strategy which fails to recognize this and to act appropriately is going nowhere.
There are lots of unconstitutional things which our government does. The government does them because a sufficient majority of the population either supports those unconstitutional acts, or is indifferent. Until those minds are changed, the acts will continue.