Whatever else you want to want to say about our current president, "The People" did not vote him in.
The fact that he's President really is going back to the founding fathers' intention, and why we have an Electoral College in the first place:
So that underrepresented voters would have a say in who the President was. And they did, so he is. And now he's pretending that he's the voice of our country, when he so clearly is not. The People spoke, and they requested someone else.
A reasonable person would look at his election results and create an agenda from there, but not Trump. I am hopeful that is his downfall. I'm not holding my breath about it, though.
But there is not "one true way" to coordinate a democratic election. Especially when considering the differences between presidential republics and parliamentary republics.
Or even concepts like "one person one vote" force systems to converge towards a few stable establishment parties.
It would still be democratic if voter could grade candidates and the winners were chosen by some appropriate statistical measure, or if voters could select arbitrary subsets of okeyish candidates and the winners were those with most votes, or any combination of many other systems.
The real objective of most democratic electoral systems is governability and meaningful representation. Pretending that popular vote is the only meaningful way to elect representatives is naive.
The fact that he's President really is going back to the founding fathers' intention, and why we have an Electoral College in the first place:
So that underrepresented voters would have a say in who the President was. And they did, so he is. And now he's pretending that he's the voice of our country, when he so clearly is not. The People spoke, and they requested someone else.
A reasonable person would look at his election results and create an agenda from there, but not Trump. I am hopeful that is his downfall. I'm not holding my breath about it, though.