@are0h If I remember the news correctly, Hillary Clinton had won the popular vote and only the system in place turned the tables: electoral college, gerrymandering, disproportion of representation of smaller states to bigger states by population…
The US is not that democratic, it has created a buffer between the people and the elected. And independence of press is very important to democracy as well.
Basically, the fallacy here is Donald Trump being elected through democracy. And that the opposition to him from the second party-in-power was… that much better.