Part of the Current Existential Dilemma

is that we liberals are forced to be both the apostles of progress & change and at the same time act as stern conservatives, mindfully conserving our rule of law and sacred constitution.
Normally, in a stable two party system, both political parties have a certain crossover state in both progress and conserving the democratic constitution legacy.
Alas though, the GOP has turned itself in a grifting party of utopian fantasies and base power worship, they are getting ready to depart the constitutional order, in fact a good chunk of them can't wait to become Sultans, Satraps, Counts, Dukes & Squadristi.
I take the long view, sooner or later, Trump Ends, but when he does, however he ends, he will try and leave behind the ruins of our American Experiment. I don't give a rat's ass as to his motivations, its his actions and intentions that concern us, and those intentions are pretty apocalyptic.
Which brings me back to our original dilemma, we liberals are conserving, Trump et al, are in outright revolutionary rebellion, we are affirming the law by applying the law, they are flouting the law and getting away with it thanks to Bob Barr and Mitch McConnell.  And in some ways, conserving is not what we do best, lawless foes have to be aggressively confronted in a metaphoric sense, they have to be denied their sense of grievance driven entitlement, remember these are people who make bloodcurdling threats and then throw babies into cages on the border.  They are the most painfully oppressive to those aren't in a position to retaliate/escalate.
Lets use our one great advantage over them, our creativity, we may be on the defensive somewhere but elsewhere we must be pressing forward.  New coalitions must be formed, hard unforgiving work looms, nothing will come easily. And when things seems darkest, just remember, Pancho Villa crossed the Rio Grande with seven followers in April of 1913, in a year he had the whole Mexican Tyranny On the Run!
At least this must be the order of things dark & light, until somehow there is a political realignment compatible with our democratic system of government. I don't expect said democracy to perish, I do expect though, in so many different ways, we must fight for it.