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"the creation of a psychological lynch mob mentality all miss the key point about a presidential election – it is a constitutional process w/a deliberate, determined sequence of events designed to protect the presidency from mob rule."

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“Federalist No. 68 explains the importance of an ordered sequence to take the passion of the mob and the manipulation of interest groups out of the presidential election process:

“the election of the President is pretty well guarded…

“It was also peculiarly desirable to afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder. This evil was not least to be dreaded in the election of a magistrate, who was to have so important an agency in the administration of the government as the President...

“But the precautions which have been so happily concerted in the system under consideration, promise an effectual security against this mischief…

“Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption...

“These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one querter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils...

“How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?

“But the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention...

“They have not made the appointment of the President to depend on any preexisting bodies of men, who might be tampered with beforehand to prostitute their votes; but they have referred it in the first instance to an immediate act of the people of America.” 🇺🇸