The Founding Fathers sure did a poor job with checks and balances against a complete idiot

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2. The electoral college was supposed to protect us, they failed to do their job.

Hamilton wrote about it in the Federal Papers.

People are easily swayed by con men. That's why we don't have direct democracy. The idea was that if the people were fooled by a demagogue or snake oil salesman that the electoral college would instead assure that a qualified person would be elected president.

That did not happen obviously. Electors are not supposed to be party representatives, they're supposed to be independent people who can judge whether or not a person is deserving of the presidency.

The provisions to stop this madness were there, the directives just weren't followed.