That history shows that incorporation has already been irreversibly embraced
As the preferred tool embraced by the left to alter the Constitution by judicial fiat.
You never made that complaint about Wickard when discussing Raich.
I never even offered the 14th Amendment, "recent history" incorporation or substantive due process as arguments at all when discussing Wickard or Raich.
Do you think Wickard and its descendants have altered the Constitution by judicial fiat?
I think they have done so every bit as much as the incorporation mess, but through the aggregation and substantial effects tests.