Well said! I Until we deal as a nation with the fundamental issue of minority representation in government at the federal level, we will never have a government which makes laws that represent most of us.
Once Roe is nullified Americans will have shown they are willing to allow allow a Mitch McConnell to gerrymander the Supreme court. The US has a counter-majoritarian government in place and that is the cancer at the heart of the federal system.
Right now, the Senate is split evenly in half, but the 50 Democratic senators represent 41.5 million more people than the 50 Republican senators. By 2040, if population trends continue, 70% of Americans will be represented by just 30 senators, and 30% of Americans by 70 senators.
In the immediate future I wonder what happens when blue states sue red states and red states sue blue states because they refuse to comply with each other's laws? Roe has opened these flood gates.
Who will enforce oppositional laws? If blue states refuse extradition of offenders, who will cross state borders to remove and incarcerate private citizens? Certainly not the FBI since they have no state jurisdiction once Roe ceases to be a federal law.
Will the Republicans force through an act in Congress similar to the fugitive slave act? It was one of the major factors that led to the Civil War.
These are all questions I've been playing with as a writer like you. I believe our hopes rest with blue state governors like Lamont in CT, who can stand up against a federal government that is counter-majoritarian in nature. Republicans rule because of it.
Democrats have been blind and weak in continuing to stick to a political system that doesn't advance democracy and support pro-majoritarian government. Like Trump they need to speak up loudly in public about an unfair, weighted political system that allows conservative, faith-based values to dominate the private lives of the majority. For instance in his ruling Allito drew upon an Englishman who believed that husbands owned their wives, and who also advocated burning women at the stake for being witches.
The brilliant novel American Wars, which I know you also admire, may give us some of the answers https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Omar-El-Akkad/dp/0451493583 , just as Orwell's book 1984 has shown us the opposite side of the same coin.
