Actually it’s because they are a criminal organization and the normal channels of government are an obsticle to absolute power.
Popular elections of a President would subject the entire country to the whims of the most corrupt states which harvest millions of phony “ballots”.
We should NEVER concede that Pres. Trump “lost” the popular vote. Who knows for sure, with big cities’ and leftist states’ massive fraud?
They don’t fear it, they hate it and the foundational principles on which it was created.