Then why did ratifying the amendment make a whit?
I don’t know that it did.
Its hard to argue that the direct election of Senators resulted in the New Deal and all the leftist ills that plague us.
It was state selected Senators who voted for the amendment to be put forth for ratification by the states and it was the states who approved it.
I hear the arguments and perhaps I am not sharp enough to grasp it, but I do not see that a leftwing state like California is going to select or elect Senators who are much different from the loons they have now.
Here in NC, we were under dumblecrat control for decades, yet we elected Jesse Helms, Richard Burr, Elizabeth Dole...none of whom would have gotten to the floor in the dumblecrat led legislature.