The Electoral College is an integral part of being a Republic. Lefties want a tyranny of the majority- a majority where a significant portion of the electorate pay no Federal taxes and live via government handouts they don’t pay for.
At least with an electoral college there is a small chance that the will of people who don’t live in NYC, Boston, Philly, Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco, Los Angeles etc. will have some say in what the government does to them.
“In a republic, the people are indeed sovereign and the majority have the democratic right to speak for the whole. But our Founders wisely limited the use of that democratic right with republican institutions in order to protect the people from “the tyranny of their own passions.” Precisely because of these limitations, the people are able to express their sovereignty in their most reasonable capacity.”
“Thus our republic is democratic in that it is controlled by public opinion, but our Constitution requires patience and persistence for the people to express that opinion through elections. By filtering the people’s judgment through elections over time, the Founders established a republic that would allow the people’s best beliefs about what is just—not their immediate impulses for what they want—to guide the government. Such a deliberative process is best described as republican, not “undemocratic.”