Yes, Hillary won the popular votes, but if one looks at the electoral map for 2016, except for the big liberal states, New York, Washington DC, California, Massachusetts, Nevada ... the 2016 electoral map is a sea of Red with some of the traditional "Blue" states now turned Red.  Since 2009 under President Obama, Democrat have lost 900+: 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats, 12 Governors and state legislature seats. That's the true legacy of President Obama for the Democrat Party. 

There was a good design intent that America’s founding fathers designed the system to protect small states from being dominated by states with large urban populations (such as the sanctuary cities) to protect people democracy from elitism.