Needs to be said how conservatives are all for "law and order" until they are on the wrong end of it

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8. Perhaps, but in public discourse they successfully shifted the definition their way...

...so that in political contexts it is the default: it's what people think of when they hear or read the word.

That puts you in the same boat as people who talk about "socialism": Whether you like it or not, if you choose to use that word, people will take it to mean something other than what you're trying to convey.