The first step in fixing the Electoral College is getting rid of it. Because of it, the last 2 Republican presidents lost the popular vote. In a sane country that would have been a loss. And both of those presidents were a disaster for our country. Republicans haven't won a popular vote since 1988 and yet controlled the White House for 20 of those 36 years. Tell me how that is fair.
Some of our British friends still seem a bit confused about the sea change that happened in American politics, how the party of Lincoln became the one embraced by Southerners and other racists. Let's start with Eleanor Roosevelt the most activist first lady of them all, who did whatever she could to help the black community. To quote fictional TV redneck Archie Bunker: "We didn't even know the blacks were there till Eleanor Roosevelt went and found them". Some historians credit William Jennings Bryant, Three-time candidate for President who around 1900 advocated for government to play a role in defending equal rights. But as late as 1920 we had a Democratic president who was a white southern racist. Flash forward to Roosevelt's successor Harry Truman who desegregated the military by executive order (meaning he knew he would never get the votes in congress but as Commander-in-Chief he had enough control over the military to do it without support of congress). This split the party with the southerners setting themselves up as Dixiecrats and running their own candidate, Strom Thurmond, in the 1948 election. Thurmon lost to Truman but he got a million votes. After that election most of the Dixiecrats returned to the Democratic fold until the mid 60s. In 64 and 65 Democratic president Lyndon B Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act aimed at bringing minority voters into the body politic. This was kind of the last straw for the South and Johnson, himself a southerner said after signing the CRA,
“I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come.” And sure enough, in the very next national election Nixon's Republican Party developed their "Southern Strategy" by supporting Southern causes like segregation, state's rights and "Law and order". Critics called it "dog whistle politics" but it worked and Republicans have exploited this divisive strategy every since then. During this time the party became not only more racist but more right wing as well. And that brings us to now when a megalomaniac
is employing the southern strategy on steroids, bent on tearing our country apart.