Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
The alternative to more democracy isn't a king. It's a system that abstracts the will of the people. The people should have some input, but it shouldn't be too direct. You can argue back and forth about what system should be used for electing the president, but at the end of the day, Donald J. Trump received 46.09% of that nations votes. That's nontrivial.
I would be highly surprised if the majority of Trump voters preferred Trump over some other candidate (rather than simply defaulting to him as a vote against Hilary Clinton), and that some such other candidate wouldn't have won the nomination in a different voting system. Although perhaps my idealization of Republican voters is too optimistic, and they really do love the idiot king.