If anyone tries to defend the electoral college to you, just ask them to LITERALLY do the math. Make them calculate and see how a vote in a more rural, less populated state (like Wyoming) is simply more powerful than a vote in a highly populated one (like California.)
Make them do the math…divide the electoral college votes each state has by their total population. Make them see that votes in highly populated (and usually blue) states are DILUTED.
Make them try to defend that a vote in Alaska or South Dakota is literally more powerful than New York or Illinois.
Force them to admit that the electoral college is limiting the votes of more progressive people and regions. Force them to admit that the electoral college is antithetical to democracy.
Force them to admit that “the people” did NOT elect GWB in 2000 or Drumpf in 2016.
Do NOT let them tell you that “the people spoke.” ONLY the electoral college spoke.
I just wanted to add to this…when I said “ONLY the electoral college spoke” I don’t mean to downplay, dismiss, or ignore the huge block of incredibly bigoted people that DID vote for Trump. I simply mean that the majority of the country didn’t back that flaming garbage can so don’t let anyone try to say “you lost fair and square.”