the EC was put in place by the founding fathers because they had a fear the populace would elect a demagogue, and the EC they thought could filter that out
ironically, the EC gave us a demagogue in trump. so the EC didn't even work as intended, and created the problem instead of preventing it
#electoralcollege
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