The entire purpose of the electoral collage, according to Alexander Hamilton, was to prevent someone unfit from serving office. Well?
We have a completely unqualified temperamental racist, misogynist, xenophobe who can't be trusted with a Twitter account and collaborating with our enemy (Putin). He will be the dictator that the idiot rightwing claimed Obama wanted to be.
The Constitution does not prevent an electoral delegate from either flipping their vote or abstaining. It even has precedent. Some states have laws against it, but really, there is nothing they can do—which is why it is never enforced.
It has precedent. Way back in 1836, the entire Virginia delegation refused to vote for the victorious Democratic Vice Presidential candidate. Essentially, we would need to get 37 electors to flip or abstain who are supposed to go to Trump. Granted, this is the biggest Hail Mary pass: it would require, for example, most of Texas’ electors. Or, another way, all of Florida’s and most of Wisconsin’s.
Yeah, it’s a longshot. But it makes as much sense as a Trump Commander-in-Chief.
Remember our petty squabbles over Bernie v. Hillary?
If we survive this, we’ll come out stronger than ever. Unfortunately, we can’t always save our country from itself. Some motherfuckers just insist on having our nation burn.