Josh, Of course! Who doesn’t want a Sanhedrin?? Wanting a Sanhedrin is wanting Moshiach!
And yes Mored BeMalchus is applicable — when we have a Melech again IY’H.
As far as the Sanhedrin vote — that vote only includes members of the Sanhedrin — not the general public opinion.
And it is not I who sees the State as a death. It is the Gedolim.