Should the populations of North Dakota, South Carolina, and West Virginia, be able to control the country? The Founding Fathers did not create the Electoral College for the minority to rule over the majority. They didn’t fully trust democracy, fearing mob rule. They thought the people needed elites to pick their president for them. They correctly worried that a pure democracy could result in the election of a demagogue, or a charismatic autocrat, or someone under foreign influence.

Ironically, a system designed to prevent the people from choosing an unqualified demagogue has resulted in the election of an unqualified demagogue not chosen by the people.