What is so perplexing about why he is in office? He was put there by a very few highly populated areas in this country - you could count the highest of those on your fingers.
It isn’t hard to understand why they want a popular vote at all and why they hate the Electoral College. The reason why they don’t like a majority of the states under Republican governance is the very same reason they have trouble playing politics nationwide with the Electoral College. They aren’t dispersed enough nationwide to influence them.
The truth of the matter is that they don’t care about regional representation, influences, concerns that states are concerned with. They want dynamic and ubiquitous control brought by pure mob rule - rule by liberals backed by entitlement seekers. Democracy with a small “d”.
Next time one of them says do away with the EC, tell them Okay - lets do away with 2 Senators from Delaware, Rhode Island, NH and all the other low population states, then see what they say. [And yes, I’m aware there are also some low population Republican States, too.]
He’s in office because the GOP had a dud candidate shoved on them and the voters sat home.
And yes, the Left loves [promotes] chaos, division and mob rule - people want more government when something needs to be “fixed.”
The Left will do anything and everything possible to increase their odds of taking power and control (lie, cheat, steal).
Your third sentence sums them up nicely.
Universal suffrage destroys every democracy.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken