Appreciate your taking the thought process and speculation a little bit further out, and further afield. I was looking just at the ramifications to Mrs. Davis or any one who chooses to disobey an unconscionable order from the government.
I’m a big fan of Orson Scott Card’s “Enders Game”. In the book the protegonist, Ender, beats a bully to death not out of anger but of strategic advantage: by beating that one bully to death he puts all other bullies on notice that he can do the same thing to them.
A variation of that principle applies here. Show the Progressives that they can only obtain their sacred cow policies at great political expense - resulting in losses on all sorts of other issues, and they’ll change their behavior.
Case study is how the Democrats largely abandoned gun control in the early 2000s and still shy away from it. Apart from making a lot of inconsequential noise at the national level and implementing what they feel they can in “safe” deep blue states like NY and CT.
Reason is that Al Gore lost a couple states, including his home state Tennessee, to Bush due to the Clinton Assault Weapons ban. All Gore had to do is win one other state, ANY other state, and FL wouldn’t have mattered.
It cost the Democrats the Presidency for eight years. Something they still haven’t forgotten.