Without The Electoral College, The United States Is No Longer A Republic

1. Even here, with the shockingly low standards of civics education in America, and deliberate partisan misinformation from both print and television media, means much of the American population lives not knowing why the Electoral College was made part of the nation's system in the first place, and how it is the last bastion against majoritarian tyranny.
2. Having read the history of the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, and being well versed on the ongoing chaos of Europe, they understood that any project that guarantees liberal instincts need to be saved from its universalist extreme tendencies that eventually cause destruction.

http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/22/without-electoral-college-united-states-no-longer-republic/