I wonder if that would still hold if elections were direct with more than one round, in absence of the Electoral College indirect system. With indirect elections, candidates that risk "rocking the boat" too much can be derailed and filtered out more discreetly, without resort to the extreme methods seen in Russia.
Both sides would agree the last US president passed the bar for "rocking the boat" with flying colors and yet the Electoral College didn't "filter" him.
This is a misrepresentation of the how the electoral college functions. All it does is change the weight each state has over the result in a systematic and well understood way. It doesn’t in practice made any decisions about the results.
No, just crucified by the media. Why kill anyone if you can make the masses believe anything you want?
In addition to the near-Ron-Paul media mistreatment pointed out by another commenter, there is evidence he was physically attacked before "backing" Clinton.