Your whole system for appointing the supreme court Justice is totally screwed up.
In the UK Justices who serve on the supreme court of either the UK or Scotland are appointed on merit and reputation by a panel of none partisan legal experts who make a recommendation to the Queen who symbolically makes the appointment.
Applicants must have been a qualified legal professional for 15 years, a high court judge for at least 2 years (in effect meaning they must be over forty five) with an unblemished reputation. They must have no upheld complaints against them or have had no judgment overturned as biased or unjust.
They have a mandatory retirement age of 70 (in effect meaning no one Justice can serve for more than 25 years), but can be fired or asked to step down for malpractice, mental incompetence, ill health or negligence. They can also resign if they wish.

I’m looking forward to ACB being confirmed. I like it better that Biden won’t give a solid answer on packing the courts because that gives more support for Trump. It’s beautiful.

Expand the hell out of it!

Don’t despair too quickly. I’ve been following SCOTUS for decades. While Barrett may sound like a cuckoo conservative Catholic right now, newly confirmed members do sometimes flip.

Alito and Thomas may slways be regressive twins, but there are two more, either of whom may flip the way Sandra Day O”Connot did soon after Reagan appointed her. Kennedy, conservative while one of four, became a fifth, flipped on gay issues. Roberts, while he was a fourth was expected to oppose Obamacare. When he became a fifth, he flipped and saved it from defeat.

Again and again, a judge who had reliably been one of four conservatives, when he became a fifth, flipped and as if trying to save rhe Court’s reputation, saved important liberal cases.

Rather than despair, click on the "My Ancestors Did Not Use Guillotines and I’m Pissed" Group

We missed our opportunity when we didn’t take the Senate in 2018 when we flipped the House. Democrats have to learn that interim elections are every bit as important as the four year presidential elections.