So these people are so wise as to “protect the people?”
“So these people are so wise as to “protect the people?””
Exactly so. That was the plan, anyway.
For example, the founders were concerned that if, say, the univeral franchise were unwisely granted by a reckless, weak-minded generation, and a corrupt rich elite were to push their Marxist Manchurian candidate who appealed to this dumbed-down electorate made up of groups of dependents, then the electors protect the people with their refusal to seat the fraud.
In the same way, it is the duty of the delegates to refuse to nominate a rich manipulative insider fraud that has the support of perhaps 20% (if that) of even the more active elements of the party, and is likely to lose in the general election to the other fraud anyway.