The current political reality in the US is dominated by conservative interests even though there’s a Democrat president and Democrat-controlled House. The Democrats have seemed powerless to do much about it, either.
Compounding this problem at the federal level is the fact that at least half of the state legislatures are controlled by Republicans, and they’ve been emboldened by recent SCOTUS decisions to push through more and more legislation pandering to fundamentalist christians and business interests and are even considering rolling back hard-won civil rights. Hell, one congressman wants the courts to reconsider the Brown v. Board of Education decision that ended school segregation back in the 1950s.
Thomas made it clear in his concurring opinion in the recent Dobbs decision that he thinks the court should reconsider their prior decisions on the availability of contraceptives, same-sex marriage, and other similar precedents (but not interracial marriage–gee, I wonder why?)
The visible powerbase of the Republican party now seems to consist of two groups: fundamentalists and white blue-collar males. The real, behind the scenes, powerbase is, and always has been, the monied business interests who use the fundamentalists and working class as a smokescreen to hide their real agenda.
Since supreme court justices are highly educated and presumably intelligent people, I have to wonder why so many of them support some of these egregious decisions, and can only conclude there’s likely to be money changing hands in the backrooms of the court.