but how to fix these things?
The Left has been making noises about doing away with the Electoral College. Just count the popular vote instead.
But wouldn't it be interesting to keep the Electoral College and have it operate at the county level rather than the state level? Trump wins 2,626 to 487 and urban centers have virtually no impact on presidential elections.
That doesn't fix the culture, but it wouldn't hurt.
The pinochet solution if 80000 democrats were killed a lot of problems would go away