And so would be the case for any “scary” winners under the popular vote system.
Indeed, but the fire for changing it right now because someone we don’t like won the election seems rash.
I’ve always been against the system. Even if it was the other way around, a 3 million vote discrepancy is unacceptable.
That’s the whole point of the system, though. The population is weighted unevenly towards big cities which almost always are islands of highly concentrated blue in a reddish sea.
If we had one state with one big city in it and most of the Liberals lived there while most of the Conservatives lived out in the boonies and there were more Liberals in the city than Conservatives in the country, we’d so rarely have a Conservative President that you’d think we were a single-party nation and the Conservatives would feel very unincluded. I don’t think it’s entirely fair to allow a majority to have control purely because they’re a majority. What if they want to elect a cat?