Everything old is new again.
One minor but interesting point from this podcast I listened to about the 1796 presidential election.
A contemporary conceit is that hostility toward the electoral college's purposefully anti-democratic structure is based on the ignorance of a modern society that is clueless about the wisdom of our sacred and omniscient Founding Fathers (capitalized, of course).
But this podcast points out that so-called "faithless electors" - who tried actually implementing the electoral college's precise purpose - were controversial even back in 1796... among the generation that actually wrote and adopted the Constitution.
