The popular choice is not elected as president.
There's no reason for the electors to overrule the popular choice.
I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?
The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.