Reprinted from the Atlantic website

Let us consider how it is that Benjamin Quayle, son of the former vice president, opposed by a majority of Arizona’s Republican voters, will soon be a member of Congress, their opposition notwithstanding.
There is a reassuring myth in American politics that the nation’s policies are set, and its laws written, by men and women who have been selected for those important tasks by majority vote of the citizens they are to represent in Congress.

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