I guess you have to be "right wing" nowadays to support such things.
So many of these concepts were often couched in high brow sounding political theory words with reference to people that no one but poli-sci majors and political junkies had ever heard of.
I love Mark Steyn, a new article by him is like a batch of chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven. I dive right in and emerge with sated with bits of verbiage smeared on my shirt.
But he is not for everyone. My uncle finds him unreadable. He uses too many big or obscure words for his tastes. He may plow though one if I send it to him, say it is important and provide a glossary as to what some of the terms mean.
He is not uneducated, it is just not something that catches his interest like it does mine.
Most people don't have the time or inclination to pick their way though political theory.
They tune out.
But tell them simply and logically what needs to be done and why and they will follow.
“Read the actual WORDS of the Constitution. Even Democrats then would not have argued about it. “
I agree with everything in your post except the foregoing. The democrat attack on the Constitution started with Wilson and became extreme during the New Deal under Roosevelt. All the “living constitution” crap has been standard democrat dogma since at least 1934.