The Feral government no longer represents the interests of state legislatures.
On a strict “one-man, one-vote” basis, the representation by the Senate is badly skewed. Each Senator has vastly more clout while representing Alaska, than while representing California. And in fact, Senators end up representing not so much their respective states, as representing whoever happens to have financed their most recent campaign.
When the Senator was subject to recall by the respective State legislature, there was a great deal more attention paid to what the people of THAT STATE wanted from their representation in Washington. Now, that responsibility is greatly blurred, if it exists at all any more.
I don’t see any chance of ever returning to the way things were nor am I sure we should. We might be able to eliminate the popular vote for senators within the states.
Maybe electing them by congressional districts won.