The electoral college IS NOT necessary to have a republic and the only lynch mob we saw was on J6, when the Trumpistas refused to accept the decision of the Electoral College.
Wrong.
The electoral college is necessary in order to have a republic, because majority rule is not a valid means of determining what is right or not.
What if the UN were to be based on popular vote instead of ignoring population sizes?
Should China and India be able to rule the UN?
Of course not.
Population size does not make an opinion more valid.
The reality is that large population states like CA, NY, FL, TX, etc., likely should not even be in the US, but be their own countries, where they can make what laws they want.
But they are totally corrupt in my opinion, and the last thing I would want is for them to have even more power.
The larger the population, the more corrupt.
That is always the case.
And like the invasion of Iraq that was extremely popular, popularity is almost never right.
The J6 protests were correct, because regardless of who actually won the election, there was never the legally required investigation into voter fraud. The 2000 election also was very badly done. Most elections are badly done. We should do all of them much better.
But look at the claims against the J6 protest, and it is easy to see they are lying.
They are claiming the protestor wanted to prevent election certification in order to somehow keep Trump in office. And that obviously is a lie. If the vote is NEVER certified, then Trump would still be out of office. His term would expire regardless. So then clearly there is no possible illegal motive for the protest. Right or wrong, its motives have to be clean. All they could possibly have hoped for was an investigation. And that is their right. We SHOULD have had a much better investigation.