… The phenomenon of disliking Congress intensely yet reelecting the same members election after election is so well known that political scientists have a name for it: Fenno’s paradox, named for Richard Fenno, the political scientist who first noted in the 1970s that people dislike the institution but like their own member. …
Americans are probably about to really not like Congress, with a weak Republican majority in the House, where anything that does pass likely won’t be taken up by the Democratic Senate. But all the evidence says that it won’t matter—voters will reelect 90-95 percent of the same representatives again in 2024 regardless of what chaos happens in Congress and how little legislative headway is made in the next two years. CONTINUED
Natalie Jackson, National Journal
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