This directly reverses an original purpose of the Constitution ensuring that the less populated states were not ruled by the more populated states. This was a major point of contention when the Constitution was ratified on 1788 and would not have been ratified without the guarantee that all states would have a say in the electoral process.
Fundamental difference is that back then, everyone saw the States (state governments) as the major players in federal politics. Now, probably ~90% of the population sees individuals as the major players, and probably 9% think it's corporations, some oligarchs or a national or international conspiracy that run national politics (and “federal politics” ceases to exist). Not many people still clinging to Hamilton and Madison. And frankly, that's not all bad (sure not all good either, especially with how we got to this place).
Point it, we still don't have a democracy, we still have a constitutional republic. We should frame this as a questions of individual rights, verse national rights and leave the State's out of it. Let rule of law and the constitution protect individual rights. We have a lot of hope of swinging back towards individual rights (that fits with our vision of an educated, literate and connected society), more so that State's-Rights (which is still borderline feudal, without the negative connotations your get form, say the George Wallace era)