Agreed. The 17th Amendment removed a fundamental check on the power of the Fed.
Couldn’t disagree more on repealing 17th. State legislators are just as corrupt as feds. You want them appointing our senators? At least now, we have a little bit of say in it. Take IL for example. For decades run by the most corrupt partisan democrat boss michael madigan, or WI with the ‘republican’ that won’t follow up on vote fraud. No thanks.
What needs to be talked about and dealt with is repeal of the insane SCOTUS ruling in the 60s that said state senators had to be elected the same way state Representatives are elected instead of allowing each county in a state have senators. This is why all of the blue states are completely dominated by big cities.