To his credit, Allen also called Santa Ana after their meeting to apologize again.

This situation is *exactly* the reason the Founders created the Electoral College in the first place. And honestly, if a candidate as manifestly unqualified as Trump doesn’t trigger the EC into action, then it basically has no reason to continue to exist ...

It’s the system, but it’s not what people think the system is. This is in fact the moment for which the electoral college was designed - a group of wise men will see that the great unwashed were taken in by an unfit demagogue, and make a different choice. It’s a grim historical irony that we’re in this moment because…

...538 people conspiring together to decide the president is about as un-democratic an electoral process as one could imagine.