SORRY, ANTI-TRUMP PROTESTERS, but this is what democracy looks like.

UPDATE: From John Althouse Cohen:

It doesn’t matter that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, just as it didn’t matter that Al Gore won the popular vote.

In both cases, I would have preferred the Democrat over the Republican. But I lost, and I can only accept the results of the election — just as so many people were urging Donald Trump to do if he lost. The same people would have been outraged if Trump had refused to accept the results after winning the popular vote but losing the Electoral College.

If you want to switch from the Electoral College to a popular-vote system, put your money where your mouth is. Do the hard work of lobbying for a constitutional amendment. This would take a long time, and you’d have no assurance that it would end up favoring candidates you happen to like. But it would be more effective than ad hoc complaints about the results of a particular election.

This is not just a legal technicality. When you look at the popular-vote totals, that’s not what it would be under a system where the candidates were trying to win the popular vote. In that hypothetical alternative universe, all sorts of things would be different, and there’s no telling what would have happened. The campaigns would have focused on places like California and New York instead of Nevada and New Hampshire. . . .

The only thing the candidates were trying to do was to win the Electoral College, so that’s the only fair basis for judging their results.

Yes.