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b_b · 3133 days ago · link · · parent · post: I, for one, do not welcome our new Neoliberal overlords.
It's pretty east to use the 17th amendment itself as a case-controlled experiment in whether the 17th amendment was a net negative. Doing so, it's really easy to make an argument in favor of direct election of senators, and really difficult to make one against (if we're using data and history and not some specious hypothetical argument about local accountability).