“Is anyone really surprised that state Dems would be blocking the wishes of the citizens of their states?”
It was citizens of their states that put the state Dems in office. Those citizens may want the Dems they put in office to block the wishes of the citizens who couldn’t get their crap together well enough to get their candidates elected.
Question: How many state level Dems run as liberals? (other than the NE & Cali). If they ran as conservatives and got elected, then they are blocking the wishes of the citizens of their states.
But I will admit to the part about the conservatives not being very well organized.