You seriously oversimplify. On many of your points.
First. RW and LW, neither is a homogeneous mass of people, nor is either defined by a single issue. Yes, size of government--both federal, state, and local IS ONE of the issues. But there is not a single "right size" that either end of the spectrum believes in. I also am far more concerned that the Born Again group will push just what they are pushing this week: THEIR version of the bible taught in schools. Not necessarily MY version, certainly not Thomas Jefferson's or Alexander Hamilton's version. I fought the Taliban far to hard for us to do the same thing, just waving a different book.
Second, within the Republican/Conservative collective some of us DO believe a few of our brethren are off the deep end. Just as the Dems/Libs are not all "Progressives".
Third, and most important to this discussion, the laws that seriously threaten this community are FEDERAL trafficking, money laundering, and fake terrorist charges--and many of the people in DC pushing that ARE motivated by the moral beliefs, not an actual fear that AMPs are terror cells. Read some of what Jeff Sessions has said about drugs, sex trafficking, and money laundering--almost unable or unwilling to acknowledge they don't come inherently linked together. And lest you think "well, he's gone", the remaining appointees (not so much the "deep state" career civil service guys) make Sessions look like a Satanist. They want to establish a bible-based morality, and only their version of the biblical morals. They would be happy to bring back stoning of adulteresses if they thought they could.
BackPage, etc., were not brought down by local folks, liberal or conservative. It was pushed by the extremists of both ends.