'The Atlantic' Editors Endorse Hillary Clinton for President '

There are ONLY 3 candidates for President ever endorsed by The Atlantic in its 159-year history. Abe Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson were 2. In 1860,the founding editor of The Atlantic  warned about the perishability of the great American democratic experiment if citizens were to cease taking seriously their franchise:In a society like ours, where every man may transmute his private thought into history and destiny by dropping it into the ballot-box, a peculiar responsibility rests upon the individual … For, though during its term of office the government be practically as independent of the popular will as that of Russia, yet every fourth year the people are called upon to pronounce upon the conduct of their affairs. Theoretically, at least, to give democracy any standing-ground for an argument with despotism or oligarchy, a majority of the men composing it should be statesmen and thinkers.