^ This is where I am at when reading OP. If our country is a house, the [original] constitution is it's foundation. There used to be very few people trying to undermine that foundation, certainly few enough that repairing/securing it was more than manageable (those forces also used to be external and easily identifiable). Now every "progressive" has their cold chisel and hammer out trying to bust chunks off. While liberals, their enablers, try and sell it as them feeling excluded from the house and just trying to dig under to get a roof over their heads.

Do we try to insert a new foundation without stopping the source of degradation? Why would we expect the replacement to be accepted and catalyze a behavioral change?

I would love for there to be another way, but stepping back and watching as the house collapses on top of them seems to be the only way they learn. [Probably can expand this analogy, we have a crane set-up to support the load...with a touch of slack. Lesson is learned by those who need learning, but all is not lost and we can lift things back up and restore the original foundation after.]