The only way to stop having to constantly fight this issue is to manage to swing things back further back, to have backlash in the direction of "no and stop ask

The only way to stop having to constantly fight this issue is to manage to swing things back further back, to have backlash in the direction of "no and stop asking", or if necessary, "no, and your smoking crater will be a warning to the next person to try". We should be in a world where "I want to ban encryption" results in "Of course not, and your career in politics is now over". We should be in a world where "I want to ban encryption" results in "No, in fact here are a bunch of laws enshrining the right to encryption and privacy". We should be in a world where everyone building encryption technologies is building it in a fashion not just resistant to but actively hostile to any ability to control or backdoor it.