The Founding Slave Rapists only wanted to vote to be restricted to White, Property owning males. We've moved beyond that a long time ago.
The electoral college was a bad idea from the start, just look at all the problems it causes.
The thing was the People Got it right. Bush was an awful President, Trump was an awful president.
It's not a matter of "Civics". Most elections, the guy who wins the popular vote wins the presidency, and we are usually fine.
It's when this goofy anachronism says, "Naw, we'll put someone else in because they maybe got more electoral votes after some shenanigans at the state level" that we have problems.
Al Gore wouldn't have gotten us into a war on Iraq on a lie and crashed the economy because he let the bankers run amok.
Hillary would have responded competently to Covid when it hit.
The people get these things right. We should trust them.