The Founders had a healthy and historically sound aversion to pure democracy (mob rule). Specifically, mobocracy has a reliable track record for disregarding the Inalienable Rights of individuals, both those in the minority and the majority. Sometimes the "passions of the mob" need to be restrained in subtle (or not-so-subtle) ways.
Most Americans, of course, are totally oblivious to this bedrock American principle, due to the fact that our Leftist-controlled education system has been turning kids' brains into confused mush for several decades.
The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency represents an enormous opportunity to set a new course in so many areas for America— and not merely swapping Left wing authoritarianism for Right wing authoritarianism, which is doubtless what some on the Right would prefer.
One of the most promising features of Donald Trump's cabinet nominations and appointments is the introduction of several individuals with healthy libertarian strains— Steve Bannon, for example.
This bodes well for all Americans.
Hopefully, President Trump and his team will not squander this golden opportunity they've been presented with. I hope any remaining skeletons in Donald Trump's closet are insufficient to derail the absolutely revolutionary process on which we have all embarked.
I have no doubt that some policies of the Trump administration over the next 4 years will anger conservatives as much as other policies will anger liberals, but I see that as a very positive thing, because true freedom and opportunity will always have aspects which alternately delight some and frighten others.
As this process occurs, my fervent hope is that everyone realizes that tolerance of differing opinions (inasmuch as Liberty remains the paramount consideration) will ultimately lead to what I call the "greatest common denominator" of Freedom, which, to my mind, is preferable to any and all "lesser" visions of it.
Donald Trump's America needs to be the most free, not the least. If that is our goal, then all the challenges that come along with that attitude will be well worth facing. I have no doubt that such an effort will require sacrifices from all of us— but only those sacrifices which do not compromise Liberty, and which also empower the People to "form a more perfect Union"...
We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.So how does one avoid a “battle of democracy” other than to make sure the conditions do not exist to fight such a battle in the first place? The Founding Fathers certainly knew how despots thought.
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.
Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production. …
— Communist Manifesto, Ch. 2