You’re apparently unable to understand the point. The more control the majority party has, the more likely it is for that state to appoint members from the majority party. Republicans pick up more seats because they have more control in the state legislatures.
I did understand the point. More R-controlled legislatures than current R-Senate seats = Senate seat gains for R. I get it. Not too hard. If course, the D’s get it too.
I hope you got my point, too. Even this author is proposing to monkey-around with the Constitution to get what he wants out of it, short-term.
Go re-read the US Constitution. It’s not very long. There’s almost as much stricken out of it by Amendments as remains of the original writing (I exagerate).
The Founders were trying to create something, a government that worked in a certain way, out of that document - like a high-performance automobile engine.
We approach it like monkeys with hammers, bending parts and smashing things, and still expect it to work without understanding what it was doing in the first place.
I would like the 17th Amendment repealed, just as the author would. But it isn’t going to happen just so that R’s can pick up seats in the Senate.
It will only happen when enough people realize how broken the Federal Government has become by its inclusion.
The Houses no longer check each other. The Senate functions exactly like the House, only on steroids. There is no representation, at all, in the Federal legislature for the rights of the Individual AGAINST the will of the Majority.
I believe this damage is NOT accidental. The Progressive Movement in America has ALWAYS been about enabling mob-rule within a Government set-up to restrain it.