Pulse Of The Peninsula: Electoral College could still save U.S.

Petitions are circulating such as this one from Credo: 
“Donald Trump is unfit to serve as president and did not win the support of the majority of the American people. 
Hillary Clinton is set to win the majority of the vote by more than 2 million votes despite widespread voter suppression and the FBI’s interference in the election. 
Honor the majority vote and elect Hillary Clinton on Dec. 19.”
I’m wondering how many of the electoral voters are actually Never-Trumpers, and now, since they have seen how Trump would govern, who he intends to appoint to run the country (a climate denier to run the EPA; an anti-public education billionaire to run Education; an unhinged fired general to run national security, a neo-Nazi as chief adviser), might be having a twinge of remorse, especially given the fact that Hillary Clinton actually won the popular vote by about 2.5 million votes (most ever for a candidate who didn’t actually win the presidency), and new revelations about Trump’s conflicts of interest, his contempt for the Constitution, his erratic approach to foreign policy, his lack of transparency, his enthusiasm for pay-to-play (an echo of Richard Nixon’s, “If the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.”) 
And the only reason Trump will be president is for the voter suppression and likely election fraud (not voter fraud as Trump has asserted without evidence), not to mention the unprecedented intrusion by FBI Director James Comey just 11 days before the election. 
These combined to tilt key swing states by the mere 1-2 percent margin for him to hit the magic number of 270 electoral votes despite losing the popular vote by a wide margin. 
You only needed Russia to tamper with a few votes here and there in precincts in the swing states to swing the election — indeed, only 100,000 votes among three battleground states that were polling in Hillary’s favor just before the election: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
And those electoral voters should be downright shaking about the fact Trump has declined taking the daily Presidential intelligence briefing (instead obsessing over convincing Carrier Air Conditioners to keep 800 jobs in Indiana while still moving more than 500, and remarks from the “Hamilton” cast), and from all accounts, dismissive of Obama’s advice to him on such critical topics as the urgency of keeping North Korea in check. 
This is a haunting echo of George W. Bush’s dismissal of President Clinton’s intelligence advisers warning him of Osama bin Laden as a grave threat, only to stand by as four hijacked planes, circling around for hours, hit their targets on 9/11 without any defense from the U.S. military. 
But Trump believes, “I know more than the generals” and yet, he was shocked to hear General Mattis, his nominee as Secretary of Defense, tell him that torture doesn’t work. Shocked!
The Republican electors should be downright quaking in their proverbial boots over Trump’s irresponsible, erratic and ignorant foreign policy, already demonstrated in how he praised the Philippines President (for his extrajudicial murders), antagonized China in speaking directly to the President of Taiwan (when China could instantly crash the US economy and move more aggressively into Asia-Pacific territorial waters), dismissed the nuclear threat from North Korea, even as South Korea’s presidency is toppling, and his gleeful embrace of Putin, effectively giving the Russian dictator license to stampede through Ukraine and into the Balkans and continue to assist Syrian President Assad in murdering civilians.
The Republican electors may be cheering Trump’s plan to install a Cabinet intent on overturning climate action, the Iran nuclear deal, trade agreements, repeal Obamacare, take away women’s reproductive rights, privatize Medicare and Social Security, destroy public education, create a registry for Muslims, reverse course on workers’ rights and wage gains, but they who claim to be patriots should have concern that Trump will do all of this without care, awareness or interest of the larger consequences to the majority of Americans (54 percent) who rejected him. 
The electoral votes awarded to states give small, rural (white) states disproportional representation (like the U.S. Senate), another contradiction of the mythical “one person, one vote” founding principle. Indeed, if California was apportioned electoral votes based on its population, it would have 200 votes instead of 50. 
“Today, the vote of a citizen in Wyoming is four times as powerful as the vote of a citizen in Michigan,” Lawrence Lessig wrote in the Washington Post. “The vote of a citizen in Vermont is three times as powerful as a vote in Missouri. This denies Americans the fundamental value of a representative democracy — equal citizenship. Yet nothing in our Constitution compels this result.”
And so I make a last-ditch appeal to the Electoral College voters to do the right thing, the moral thing, and in those narrowly decided battleground states, vote for Hillary Clinton. 
This isn’t a violation of the Constitution; at most, they would have to pay a $1,000 fine for respecting the will of the people. 
A chance to show courage and be a true patriot.