I never said the EC has to go. It has historical reasons for being the way it is. Maybe that history no longer applies, but there is a process to amend the constitution.

The EC will never vault an unpopular candidate in the position of president. Like it or not, Mr. Trump was a viable candidate in 2016 and he was in 2020. There is no way the EC will put someone in charge with 38% of the vote. It is a reasonable democratic process.

A 306 to 232 is not a decisive win. A couple hundred thousand votes in the right states would have given Mr. Trump the presidency in 2020. BTW 200,000 is only 0.1% of the voters.

One redeeming feature of the EC is that in narrows down the scrutiny in a close vote. If a popular vote election produces a result of 65.3 m votes vs 64.8 m votes, then all the votes in the USA will have to be recounted. The EC limits the recounts to a few states.

I consider the Trump presidency as a warning shot across the bow. A smarter oligarch would have turned the presidency into a 40-year reign by now.

So you can dance in the streets with "decisive victories" or you can inspect a new kind of democracy--a democracy where the likes of Mr. Trump would not advance very far. Your choice!