The Electoral College illuminated a minority's disaffection with the Establishment

Trump mobilized voters seeking to avenge the harm that the establishment had inflicted on them. How else can Bernie Sanders' appeal among the very same voters be explained? The AIG bailout in 2008 in particular created the singular image of bonuses for Wall Street and pink slips for the rest of us that cemented the anti-establishment fury on which he fed. It's a resentment urban elites on both coasts forgot about and which a popular voting system would have kept under the rug.