The states don't confirm Supreme Court Justices, the Senate does. The most profound and lasting moves to the left in this country have either come directly from the Supreme Court or where upheld by the Supreme Court when the court was most populated by leftist Justices.
This is the fact that is lost on the third party advocates. A third party will be all the impetus the Democrats need to make sweeping ideological changes to our form of government. In short, whatever grass roots support a conservative movement may gain at the state level, would be rendered moot by a permanent leftist Supreme Court majority.
This friend is exactly the point. The Federal Government now rules without restraint. And the courts including the Supreme Court have blessed this usurpation of the rights of the States and the people. To expect any branch of the national government to reverse this is folly.
There is only one way to roll back usurpers. And that is for the usurped to rise up and reassert their rights.