"Hmm, now which would be more advantageous to my position as someone who unfairly exploits the labour of the masses to amass himself literally billions of times more wealth than said exploited masses; a bankrupt fraudster rapist in legal trouble or someone who isn’t that? "

Its fucking crazy the US sort of considers itself a bastion of democracy while not even having direct presidential elections.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electoral_systems_by_country

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College