(Sorry for what looks like a thread dump. I've been busy the past couple of days with these thoughts floating in my mind)
The time to talk about the inherently anti-democratic nature of the electoral college system is *not* when one candidate loses the election even though they won the popular vote. It is *now*, right after an election that did not create an electoral college crisis so that we can actually talk about it as a matter of principle and not a matter of practical advantage we're trying to leverage against the other guy.
The electoral college system is an intrinsically anti-democratic system that needs to be brought in line with democratic tenets if not altogether abolished. The reason it is a terrible system is not because every now and then we get a mismatch between its winner and the candidate that won the popular vote, but because it devalues our votes and makes them meaningless across the country. It is a matter of principle.
Except we are not all that good as a nation when it comes to fighting for principles. We tend to only get riled up about them when it serves our immediate interests.