Legislating from the bench is better than the administrative rulemaking in that it's at least generally more stable, but I do think that the conservative justices have a point that the actual laws should be more directly accountable to the people than the Supreme Court is.

Basically, we should be able to change the laws, but it shouldn't be as simple as winning a single national election because that makes things too unstable.

To some extent this already has happened, just at the State level, and I think a patchwork of stable state laws is still better than a bunch of very short-lived rules at the federal level.

Everyone says this about their opposition. Obviously you know that it's not true about the liberals—you know that they mean what they say. So when a conservative says that liberals are insincere and really have a hidden agenda you know that's nonsense.

Turns out that that the same thing is also true on the conservative side. They generally really do believe what they say. Donald Trump is a notable exception, but even many of his supporters are sincere and are either stupidly taken in or see him as a means to a good end.