https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/constitutional-legitimacy-needs-democratic-legitimacy-survive
MGB: The Democrats in the House will be doing there job, checking the power of an out of control executive. This may include impeachment if the Mueller investigation goes where it must - or has already gone. So far, Mueller is keeping his powder dry, but it is likely there is at least a draft report ready to go. All it needs is pushing the send button.
If Trump does survive to 2020, he will likely be primaried, removing him or at least dividing the GOP base. Either way, social libertarian issues will take a back seat to corruption. Pelvic politics, like GOP racial code, are a get out the vote strategy. While health care may go stale, corruption is the gift that keeps on giving, even after the offending POTUS is gone. Just ask the ghost of Gerry Ford. Corruption includes gerrymandering and frustration over it certainly drove the activists, if not the voters.
The representation in the Senate is a rising meme, but in national politics the only way around it is regional government - with each region of equal electoral vote strength sending two (maybe five) members to a national caucus while retaining the current members in a regional one. Unless the large states are to dominate the small ones in reach region, we still will have use of the Senate. The straw man regional map I set up has a northwest region that goes from Minnesota to Washington and down to Missouri.and Kansas. There are no really large states but there are 22 Senate seats, isolating the problem of rural states having an outsized influence.
Such a proposal does not need a convention or an amendment. Indeed, it should first be tried out without one. It will only take some party or POTUS candidate making it an issue so that Congress cannot resist going along by having regional caucus boundaries match the executive one, which were put in, not by law, but by an executive order by Richard Nixon.
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