True, not treating someone well doesn't automatically translate to votes for the opposition but flat out abusing them, calling them -ists and -phobes and haters then providing tools for their enemies to hunt and track them down would tend to drive someone into the arms of the opposition.

Dems were pretty bad toward police during the second Obama term but this year has been orders of magnitude worse. It doesn't take a genius to see what would happen but it does take a special kind of idiocy to act as the Dems have and then be surprised by the outcome.