I think this is anachronistic. Yes, there are places where the founders suggested that there would be a conflict between large and small states. But can we poi

I think this is anachronistic. Yes, there are places where the founders suggested that there would be a conflict between large and small states. But can we point to any reasonably non-controversial case where the electoral college has acted to safeguard the "American republic"? There are two points here. First: the Supreme Court has many controversies, but also many decisions that seem very compelling in hindsight. I tend to vote for Democrats, and I'm not entirely convinced I'd disagree with the median Scalia decision (I can remember agreeing with several). It seems to fare better as an anti-majoritarian institution. Second: suppose, for the sake of argument, that you think that Trump and Bush are great examples favoring the electoral college. In both cases, the results are extremely fragile. Either candidate could've easily lost, and the electoral college was a small bit of noise in the result (some early predictions suggested Obama would win the 2012 electoral college, but lose the popular vote). The fact that a mechanism has given you results you like in two cases, by chance, is not the same as saying that it's an important constitutional safeguard.