Kathleen Parker is a columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group. Email: kathleenparker@washpost.com. Photo

She can’t let go.

She can’t stop talking about what happened. She wrote an entire book about it. Now she’s telling people in other countries about why she should have won. In India last weekend, she told an audience that she won in all the smart, cool places and then hit a pandering low that puts a catalogue of others to shame.

Hillary Clinton just can’t quit herself.

Not then. Not now.

In case you missed it, she won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes but lost the Electoral College. Like it or not, our electoral system was set up this way — with both a popular vote and the Electoral College — ostensibly as a bulwark against mob rule.

Americans hate or love the Electoral College, depending on whether it benefits them. And every few years, we want to scrap the whole thing and let the majority have its way. Or, should I say, let demographics and birth rates rule the day.

Irony, meanwhile, is one happy glutton these days. Trump’s unexpected victory meant that the “mob,” as perceived by Clinton supporters, merged with the Electoral College to pick a populist demagogue.

To say that a majority of the country awoke the morning after Election Day shell-shocked and mute is to understate the effect not so much of Clinton’s loss but of Trump’s win. As in, What?! On my block in very-blue Washington the morning after, three neighbors simultaneously ventured outside to collect the newspaper or walk the dog and stood staring at each other, wordlessly. It was as though the presidency had died.