The design charter of the EC , actually , was to make sure that we didn ' t make some kind of awful mistake . One can make a very good argument that if the EC is going to be doing exactly what it was designed to do that they wouldn ' t even come close to a Trump presidency . Here is Hamilton , writing about the EC in Federalist # 68 It was equally desirable , that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station , and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation , and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice . A small number of persons , selected by their fellowcitizens from the general mass , will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations . And this The process of the Electoral College affords a moral certainty , that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications . From my POV , it seems very clear that allowing Trump to come to power is a direct abandonment of one of the two clear principles upon which the institution of the EC was justified in the first place .