We have an electoral college for a reason; one of those reasons is to remove us a step from a direct democracy.
Obviously, the convention since 1920 or so is that all states award electors to the PV winner of the state: Maine, Nebraska, Dixiecrat shenanigans, and the occasional faithless elector notwithstanding.
That said, the system is there as an important absolute last-ditch check against the election of a crazy demagogue like Trump. Thankfully, it's not one that we've had to use before, as the parties have generally done a good job of not picking crazy people since Aaron Burr left office. But it's one that exists.
Whether the damage to American democracy from the resulting departure from the Electoral convention would be worse than that from electing Trump, I don't know. But, given Georgia laws, that's up to the electors to decide by their own conscience.
This is absolutely true, as Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 68
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Now it may be true that having the electors block Trump would lead to an enormous, and possibly even violent backlash. I think the case for that argument is quite strong, given how long the norm of electors abiding by the will of the voters has existed. If Trump were to nominally win on election night, the electors would have the responsibility of deciding whether or not abrogating that norm would be less destructive for the country than not doing so. That is an unenviable task.
Hopefully we don't get to that point.
