the stellar minds that put together the American Republic....learned men with wisdom to see down the road quite a ways....tried to balance the conflicting rights and needs to create a lasting system.
One thing they did, and which has been dismantled by the progressives, was to have Senators elected by the state legislators, not by direct popular vote. When you look at the Bidens, the Klobachars, the Kamala Harris's, Al Frankens, etc. ….how many of these characters would have ever made it to the senate floor under such a system? The left could come up with a similar list of demagogues promoted by the right to very high office that would not have won a vote of their peers, but can bamboozle the voting public.
Moving on to the electoral college system, think about what would happen without it. A politician could just do the math, figure out the most populous states, and offer them a tax holiday or some other enticement and get nearly all their votes and get elected with just a few states actually supporting them. The genius of the electoral system is that you have to win a plurality of states, not just votes. It insulates the republic from demagogues, just like the original system of senate election did.
Thoughtful systems put into place by thoughtful people, and dismantled, or attempted to be taken apart by those less circumspect.
Like someone once said, it takes a skilled carpenter to build a house, but any (donkey) can knock one down.
