In light of Nate Silver's viral tweet, here's a reminder that the electoral college has created a significant probability of minority rule for its entire history. https://slate.com/business/2019/09/electoral-college-republican-advantage-texas-economics-paper.html

It's funny that people think it matters whether the founders believed the electoral college was a good idea.

If this were a discussion about constitutional interpretation, their intentions for how the U.S. should be shaped would be relevant.

But we're talking about whether the constitution should be amended.

Understanding founders' ideas can certainly help illuminate its actual purpose, and can help one decide whether it ever was a good idea, or if any of their concerns are still relevant today.

But "the founders wanted X" is not a persuasive normative argument for anything.