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It was a fair election according to the rules and laws that were in place since 1789.
Which means absolutely nothing.
The Electoral College was and remains an anachronism. A true democracy would rid itself of it as well as gerrymandering.
How a nation of "intelligent people" could keep such electoral methods legal is beyond comprehension to even the most simple-minded.
From Pew Research, Among democracies, U.S. stands out in how it chooses its head of state - excerpt:
Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election this month – in particular, his winning a clear majority of the Electoral College vote despite receiving nearly 1.3 million fewer popular votes than Hillary Clinton – prompted readers of another Pew Research Center Fact Tank post to wonder how the U.S. system compares with the way other countries elect their leaders.
The short answer: No other democratic nation fills its top job quite the way the U.S. does, and only a handful are even similar.
Besides the U.S, the only other democracies that indirectly elect a leader who combines the roles of head of state and head of government (as the U.S. president does) are Botswana, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, South Africa and Suriname. (The Swiss collective presidency also is elected indirectly, by that country’s parliament.)