1) Trump first made a name for himself in the political arena with his birtherism against Barack Obama, our first black president.
2) The Russians were able to hack our elections and, by swinging just a few thousand critical votes in three different battleground states, steal the election for Donald Trump. This would have been impossible if we had not had the Electoral College, because Hillary won the national popular vote, which is how every other country elects their president, by almost three million votes nationwide, which would have been impossible to track, hack and steal.
3) The main reason for the installation of the Electoral College at the founding of our Republic was to entice southern slave holding states to join the union by instituting an electoral system that would give white slave owners in the southern states a stronger political voice and stronger political representation against the northern states, which had the largest cities and population centers at the time.
4) And so, the current political crisis we are in is entirely the result of the dark, morbid legacy of slavery and racism in the United States, which includes, last but not least, the Electoral College. The Electoral College, although originally a legacy of racism and slavery, is now, in this modern age of cybertechnology - and cybercriminality - also a grave national security threat, because it enables or facilitates the easy theft of our presidential elections by adversarial foreign powers and other bad faith actors. What the Russians accomplished in 2016 will not go unnoticed, or un-emulated, by other rogue states and bad faith actors.
5) No other reform of our electoral system would do so much, and go as far as, the abolition of the Electoral College. Not only does the Electoral College encourage and enable the hacking of our presidential elections by adversarial foreign powers, as was seen in 2016, but it also encourages and enables a lot of electoral corruption and shenanigans at the state level, namely gerrymandering, voter ID laws, vote purging, voting restriction, and the like. It's high time to cast off this outdated relic of our dark, racist past.
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