Used to be you had to be smart to write for the Atlantic
The founders were quite explicit they at the time did not want the principalities of New York or Boston or Charleston or Baltimore or Philadelphia to control the nation
Hence the electoral college
It may have been their most astute appraisal and measure
They did rule when they voted to elect Trump as POTUS, and passed the official responsibility onto the electoral college. Now it is their turn to make it official and no amount of resistance or irregularities should be permitted.