There was no possible road to making 37 Republican Electors change their vote to Hillary Clinton. It was never going to happen even though that’s the only reason the Electoral College exists in the first place.
The reason we don’t have a majority wins population based Presidential election is because the old white men who framed the country were smart enough to realize how stupid most people are. That’s the bottom line. They wanted to create a system to prevent the people from voting on passion and instinct against the greater good of the country. James Madison specifically argued against a process where “mischiefs of faction” could sway an election, and by his definition, a faction is “a number of citizens whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.” If that were to happen, it would be up to the electors to say hey…the people screwed up and we can’t let this happen.
That’s what’s supposed to be taking place in our state capitals today. If the Electoral College and our convoluted process toward electing a President was actually effective, the electors would be taking all of the facts into account and then deciding on the best course for America…which obviously isn’t Donald Trump. Instead, the process has failed us twice.
