Maybe, if it happened in a vacuum. If the 17th were repealed and state legislatures appointed senators, you could go down and pound on the desk of the guy who voted to appoint the Rat senator that is screwing things up. It’s a lot easier to get rid of the local guy come election time too. And you can look him in the eye and tell him that.
With such a situation, you’d most assuredly see shifts occur at the local level. It would suddenly become much more important to control state legislatures and get more people directly involved in their local politics.
I think the effect would be practically negligible. I think about my two rodent legislators deciding on who goes to Washington, and it causes my generals to recoil in horror. One State Rep. is corrupt and unaccountable, the other (State Senator) is accountable only to the Justice Department, who ordered its drawing to disenfranchise White voters for a Plantation Overseer who loves wearing crazy hats (who is saved from being the worst member of that body by Auntie Ophelia Ford, the Sterno addict, of Memphis). I couldn’t get the time of day from either. Those two would be unapologetic supporters of a permanent Senator Al Gore, Jr. in DC. So not only do I say “no” to the 17th repeal, but a “hell f’ing no !”