Roberts just went on the record saying Americans think justices are "political actors" and don't understand how the Court works. Translation: people correctly perceive what's happening and it's embarrassing. The Court manufactures legitimacy through institutional mystique. When that fails, when people see the ideological machinery grinding away, they panic. Gorsuch doing media rounds with Megyn Kelly is straight-up image rehab for a bench that lost the plot. The American public isn't confused. They're just awake.