I think there is some danger in it. Interestingly, Lawrence Lessig argued that the Constitution does not allow for faithless elector laws, but I think this opinion helps his project of circumventing the amendment process and abolishing the electoral college through the “national popular vote compact.” Faithless electors would essentially render the NPV compact unenforceable.
Of course, it makes me suspect that Lessig and other leftist NPV advocates were hoping that faithless electors would provide a failsafe in case the popular vote went the wrong way. After all, the electors from most of the states that enact the NPV laws vote Democrat, so the NPV laws would primarily operate to require Democrat electors to vote for a Republican candidate who won the national popular vote. If faithless elector laws were unconstitutional, then they could have their cake and eat it, too: preen that they are honoring the popular will by voting for the Democrat when the Democrat wins the popular vote, while finding an excuse to vote for the Democrat (”Russian interference,” “voter suppression,” “he’s a racist”) when the Republican wins the popular vote.
THIS. But we don't know if such compacts are legal and should they be legal?
The Left has been playing both sides of the argument so either they can try to convince faithless electors to vote against the Republican who won or they can rubber stamp changes in state law so no elector can defend the votes of the state population by going against the "national popular vote."
The Left knows they can fool a lot more people with the "national popular vote" argument because they control what passes for education.
Eventually they win. Look at CA, by total numbers in SF & LA they overwhelmed the voices, views and values of rural areas and the Orange & San Diego counties. No matter how hard people in those areas tried to get fair representation or break away from the hard-Left population centers in the state, they were trapped and drowned and either died off or left CA like I did when the policies and total costs became too much. That state, like Illinois, NY & a few others are tyranny of the majority cases.
Now in CA, with their scam election system where the top two go to run off you mostly only have one party choice in the general election cycle. The phony sales pitch was to produce more moderate candidates out of the primaries. I admit I fell for the term limits scam and warn every freeper and conservative who say something about congressional term limits that you do not want to go down that rabbit hole.