From Infidel753:
The chances that the Electoral College would reject Trump were always pretty remote, but in confirming his election yesterday, the institution has finally confirmed that it serves no purpose. As Hamilton explained in the 68th Federalist paper, the Electoral College was meant to serve as a sort of last-ditch emergency brake in case the voters chose a candidate who was under foreign influence or otherwise grossly unfit for the Presidency. It’s hard to imagine a more clear-cut case of this scenario than Trump, yet the Electors did not act as Hamilton described.
So the Electoral College doesn’t serve as a safeguard. All it does, by way of the peculiarities of the way Electoral votes are allocated, is to introduce random variables into the process so that the loser of the popular vote sometimes claims the Presidency. It institutionalizes intermittent minority rule.
The EC should have been abolished after the 2000 debacle- but this was hopefully the last straw!