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What you write is accurate but it doesn’t make it right in accordance with founding principles.

Following Reid’s corruption of Congress by treating his actions as precedent would be similar to making it customary to knock down a business’s doors because many don’t like the regular opening time.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

In my view, Reid has started down the road to destroying the filibuster leading Congress to form a mob-ruled democracy. That means for practical purposes, the republican form of government is lost.

Making its way into the Article V State Amendment Process or Convention of States aka Assembly of States is a proposal that repairs the damage done by Reid and members that follow his lead. The proposal looks like this:

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AMENDMENT XXVIII (’State Suffrage’)

To restore effective suffrage of State Legislatures to Congress, the following amendment is proposed:

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Section 1.
A Senator in Congress shall be subject to recall by their respective state legislature or by voter referendum in their respective state.

Section 2.
Term limits for Senators in Congress shall be set by vote in their respective state legislatures but in no case shall be set less than twelve years nor more than eighteen years.

Section 3:
The seventeenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

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I suspect that doing nothing and then just taking what you know is coming is not in accordance with founding principles either. I do not see any nobility in doing nothing and letting democrats screw republicans on nuking the filibuster first. The filibuster is just a Senate rule that can be changed at any time. The 17th amendment is what I think really screwed the Senate up. Repealing it would do much for restoring the Senate and our government to what it should be.

Making Senators subject to recall just gums things up from the start. As soon as any conservative gets elected Senator the Radicals will start a recall movement. Hence, those elected would be even more afraid of doing what’s right than they are now.

This would be a further weakening of the Republic through amplifying democratic tendencies. We know this was what the Founders believed. And today, the votes of the masses overcome those of the taxpayers. Their fear is illustrated
by the fact that they believed this in spite of having a tiny percentage of the citizenry eligible to vote. Virginia’s colonial electorate did not exceed 5% of the population.

The interest of each state is a longer term thing than that of an individual and the Senate was intended to represent States, similar in function to the House of Lords.