You are wrong about the Constitution. It is our "social contract" and it has been repeatedly amended over the centuries to reflect the thinking of not a "very few select men". The Constitution is subject to "reform" by "the people" and it has been on many occasions and the direction of those "reforms" combined with legislative acts consistent with the new reforms has been to extend the same rights to all Americans.
The issue is no longer between affording equal rights to all citizens, but in fact, most progressive ideological beliefs hinge on the belief that rights are not in fact "rights", but privileges granted by the government to the people and thus subject to change without "reforming the social contract".
In other words, under progressive ideology if the majority of Americans decided to reinstituted slavery against the 14th Amendment, then if you had a "racist activist court" that would be okay.
Progressives, who are intent on reshaping America into their vision of Nirvana see the Constitution as a stumbling block from doing what they see as the "greater good". They fail to see its primary intent as a social contract was to protect the rights of individuals and the rights of states from a central federal government... whether that government believes it is acting in favor of the majority or minority of Americans.
We were never intended to be a "democracy" where they tyranny of the majority imposes their vision on the minority. Our Founding Fathers witnessed the abuses of the French Revolutions and wanted nothing like that for our country. Instead, it tried to build a system where citizens would have far more individual control over their lives and balance that with the need to act "corporately" when dealing with threats and interstate trade.
While the Declaration of Independence established the goal of equality and the Constitution laid down the ground rules for government, it has taken our country nearly 200 years to realize those goals and just as we approach them, progressivism has attempted to ignore the contract rather than reform it.
Your summary of Trump is filled with bias. What law would you point out that Trump tried to enact to take away your civil liberties? Trump did not pick "right wing" activists in contrast to Democrats that tend to pick "activists" for the Supreme Court, instead Trump picked "constructionists" that are trying to preserve a "foundation" on which our society operates.
You are right about one thing... it is extremely difficult to shift that foundation away from the concept of individual freedom and rights to a more "democratic" rule by the majority. You know what is like to be in the "minority", do you really want to give the majority the right to rule over you? Why would that be different for people who hold opposing political views?
