Popular Vote and Electoral College

Hamilton conceives the Electoral College as a safeguard against a tyranny of the majority--the 'Hamilton Electors' are free to diverge from the constituencies that they represent if they judge that a winner of the popular vote in them is a demagogic threat to the voters who are in the minority.  Now, of the 538 members of the E. C., 100 correspond to the number of Senators in Congress, two per state.  Thus, the discrepancy between the Electoral and Popular votes, controversial in elections such as the most recent one, originates in the structure of the Senate, in which each state has two Senators, regardless of its population.  In other words, the abolition of the Electoral College would not eliminate the disproportion that is ingredient in the everyday functioning of the Senate.  There has also been some confusion in the application of the concept of tyranny of the majority in this election--Clinton being the majority vote-getter, an electoral vote in the name of curtailing potential tyranny of the majority would be one in favor of Trump, the converse of what some have insisted upon.  So, the controversy over the Electoral College in this election has been somewhat misplaced and misinformed.