I'm not sure whether you have much prior knowledge of the author, but he has advanced plenty of ideas on how the situation can be improved.
> American experiment is longest surviving thriving experiment of democracy, security and prosperity to date. We are not going to change because you don't like the results. This election worked despite commercial media, it shows that American democracy is surviving and thriving. Any proposal to "fix" the situation must come with enormous proof of it working, and at reasonable cost, and with no significant downside, otherwise we would rather keep what we have, thank you very much.
This is only really true if you frame "democracy" as being whatever America has been, at any given time. The extent to which American security and prosperity have anything to do with democracy is debatable.
> Democracy needs to be fixed because Clinton lost. Is that the argument here? This just got ridiculous.
No, American democracy failed because a complete charlatan is president. The fact that this is the case, despite the fact that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, is only the final failure in a long chain of democratic dysfunction. I'd argue that an effective system wouldn't give voters the choice between two intensely reviled candidates, to begin with. And I also agree with Lessig that our media culture succeeded in commercializing a chaotic and shameful campaign, while failing miserably to focus the election of issues that actually matter.