The popular vote argument is void because the rules dictate the campaign process. If Donald Trump had faced the task of winning the popular vote, he would have spent at least some more time and advertising money in CA, NY and possibly MA, states that he probably figured were a waste of his time and money. He could have adjusted his campaign to get a few more tenths of a percentage of the popular vote, if that had been the pathway to victory.
The electoral college has kept two climate nuts out of the White House, an outcome the founding fathers would perhaps appreciate once it was explained to them, and they stopped laughing (”they really think that? By God, our descendants have lost their minds.”)
The warming panic comes from taking no context beyond the immediate.