Why not? You need a reason. We might as well say they shouldn't be beholden to voters (which is a legit political theory, by the way, there are reasons the US i

Why not? You need a reason. We might as well say they shouldn't be beholden to voters (which is a legit political theory, by the way, there are reasons the US is a Republic). If we work backwards from the observation that Donald Trump just got elected from his second term and start probing into the whys and wherefores; direct lobbying seems to be the major problem. Politicians stock trading is certainly unseemly but it isn't at all clear whether it is pushing the quality of the decision making in Washington up or down.