Nothing wrong with being a "traditional law and order conservative". The problem is that traditional laws and traditional orders are being replaced with new laws and new orders by the liberals. Once those new laws are written and those new orders established, being a "law and order" conservative means preserving them.
The main problems facing conservative America, are related to 70 years of creeping liberal policy that has produced excessive taxation and wealth transfers, which have allowed liberal law makers to build a selected social welfare state.
This is true. What made this possible was a sea change in the role and authority of the federal government. It was called the New Deal. We all agree it needs to be fixed, and most would agree that it wil have to be done incrementally. The sticking point seems to be wheather we should be attacking the symptoms or the root cause. Your position seems to be that we should just tinker with the symptoms, and anyone who suggests trying to correct the root cause is a "fringe whacko".
I don't consider incremental conservative policy as tinkering. But I do consider, calling for states to secede from the union and/or talk of a second American revolution, to be "fringe wacko" rhetoric. You got that part right.
"The paradox with me is how any friend to the union of our country can, in conscience, contribute a cent to the maintenance of anyone who perverts the sanctity of his desk to the open inculcation of rebellion, civil war, dissolution of government, and the miseries of anarchy."
Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer, 1815.