How, in your opinion, does the direct election of senators benefit the republic?
How, in your opinion, does re-empowering politicians to elect Senators benefit the republic (especially those in states that have zero percent chance of ever electing a non-Marxist, i.e. every Democrat state) ?
I have yet to get a direct answer from the anti-17thers who think we’d magically get statesmen on par with the early republic, not only from Democrat states but from Republican states when all you’d be guaranteeing is an almost complete set of Big Porker Statists. You’d be lucky to get a Conservative at all from ANY state. Texas, under your ideal, would be sending David Dewhurst and Karl Rove. Tell me how those two would benefit the republic ?