Conservatives are the problem. Always have been. From the time they started a civil war to maintain slavery to the time they fought against women's suffrage to their fights against LGBT rights. When public sentiment turns on them too much, they retreat to "states rights" and other dog whistles. When they feel like they can get away with it they say "Haitians are eating your pets!" and "Mexico is sending us their rapists and murderers!" But fundamentally they have always wanted these things and believed these things. Political Correctness just kept them behaving more civilized for a short time.