Thread by @ThomasEWoods

Before the predictable yammering about the electoral college (which is an excellent institution no civilized person should even consider getting rid of) starts up again, here's why it's a good thing (thread coming):

Without it, we'd live in a world in which someone could be elected president by campaigning only in New York, Florida, Texas, and California. They'd have the sheer numbers to blow everyone else away. With the electoral college you can get only so much support from any one state

Also, it's not just raw numbers we want protected and represented but whole societies and ways of life, which are represented by the states

The United States is referred to in the plural in the Constitution every time it is used. This is a reflection of our being a collection of societies, not a single, undifferentiated mass

Imagine this World Series, as an electoral college analogy:
Game 1: Mets 3, Red Sox 0
Game 2: Mets 3, Red Sox 2
Game 3: Mets 4, Red Sox 3
Game 4: Red Sox 12, Mets 3
Game 5: Red Sox 27, Mets 1
Game 6: Red Sox 6, Mets 2
Game 7: Mets 1, Red Sox 0

The Mets are the winners. They won four games. It would be the ultimate sore-loser response for the Red Sox to say, "But we scored more runs over the course of the series!" Yeah, thanks for that irrelevant fact, but it's irrelevant

Each state in the electoral college is kind of like a game in the analogy. The "popular vote" is like adding up all the runs. Nobody does that.

And obviously, if the president WERE chosen by the popular vote, Trump would just campaign differently. He campaigns as he does because he is trying to win by the existing rules.