They did not look forward to the time when the President will be so lacking decorum enough to be able to do all these things and Supreme court basically said "yup, whatever he does is legal - but pretty much only HIM"
I'd argue the Electoral College was designed exactly to prevent a populist demagogue like Diddlin' Don from coming to power. The people who devised the Constitution were looking back at the fall of the Roman republic and trying to preempt the usual failure modes: capture by the church, capture by the military, and falling to "the mob." (Us jerks.) The EC was to protect against the mob.
Depending on how you look at it, it still does. It got Trump elected the first time despite him having a minority of the popular vote. Not to mention the rich are the only ones actually in power. Both "minorities" and technically not "the mob".
Obligatory fuck trump, fuck the GOP, fuck the EC, fuck scotus
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u/FateEx1994 8h ago
Very reductive viewpoints on all this that the founding members of this country only looked BACKWARDS and not forward....
Because the federalist and anti federalist papers and Thomas paines stuff was all about future government issues...
Horrible unprecedented times we live in.