That is quite a leap in logic.
How does the Electoral College serve as a layer of protection 'from' Democracy?
HRC, when it is all accounted for, will have far more than 1,000,000 MORE votes than Drumpf. Who cares if it exceeds the number of votes in California? The point being is, 1,000,000 MORE American citizens prefer HRC over Drumpf to lead our country.
Well, I will start at the beginning for you.
Article II, Section 1, states, "Each State shall appoint, in such a Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed as an Elector."
The Congress is split with House and Senate for this reason as well. The reason? Bingo, you got it, layer of protection from Democracy.
The original EC was designed so that no candidate of the lot got the majority of votes. They simply took the candidate with the most votes as President, the candidate with the 2nd most votes as VP.
It's very lulzy that the current elections results under the original pre-ammendments EC would yield Trump as President and Clinton as Vice.
1,000,000 more Americans ivoted for Hillary in States that went to Hillary already should change the election outcome is your argument. An intelligent conversation might not be possible with logic like that.