And yet, the United States got marriage equality for gays and lesbians incrementally. (And pretty quickly.)

The militarization of the police is a problem that affects many issues in the U.S., but there are ways to exert pressure (mostly social-media based) that are for now outside the influence of the police.

Maybe you need mostly an online campaign not on-the-ground protests to get the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed. But if it could be passed, it would likely have a positive incremental impact. de Santis is busy pushing through negative incremental impacts in Florida. Needing different tricks doesn't mean that incrementalism is dead.