Not representative?

House of Un-Representatives

There is nothing in the constitution that requires or implies that the congress will or should be demographically representative of the American people.

In that sense it is not and has never been representative, neither altogether, nor the house and senate taken separately, nor all of them taken by states, nor individually taken by district.

But it is in that sense that the writer of this piece complains the congress, and most especially its Republican membership, is not representative.

But he regards this as a bad thing, he says, because that disproportionately white and male congress votes as if it comprised a conservative majority – which of course it does.

So his real problem is that the congress is controlled by conservatives, and he correctly attributes that to gerrymandering for partisan advantage by Republican controlled state houses all over the country following the last census.

He does not argue the congress ought to be demographically representative or suggest constitutional changes to make it so.

Nor does even once say that not being representative in that sense is itself actually a problem.

His whining about the congress and the Republican Party in particular being so disproportionately white and male is just the normal way Democrats call upon and focus the racism and sexism of their identity-clients, women and non-whites.