>>>Maybe because its anointed a person who doesn't remotely reflect the majority of voters. You can't dodge this one. Trumps mandate is as solid as a Viennetta. Your MSM deplorables are the voice of the majority.
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>At the end of a game of Rugby, there is a score. Sometimes the score doesn't accurately match playing prowess- e.g. the team with 80% possession still can lose if the other side has an ace kicker.
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>If the team with 80% possession loses, you can congratulate them for playing well. But you cannot invent a new scoring system and pretend that possession can trump the final score.
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>These are the effects of rules agreed in advance by all the players and teams. It's terrible sportspersonship to lose and then try to change the rules to concoct a win for yourself. That's a recipe for anarchy if everybody else began being such a bad sport.
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>What cannot be dodged, is that Trump won according to the rules agreed by both candidates and teams in advance. Now he has mandate- by definition. And it cannot be dodged that some very poor sports are trying to retrofit alternative sets of rules to attack the winner- and claiming that it's done to protect the game of Rugby from the evil winning team.

Yes. Here's a dramatic - and tragic example.
http://www.augusta.com/masters/story/history/1968-de-vicenzo-signs-wrong-score-goalby-wins-masters
Roberto didn't even make the error - his playing partner, Tommy Aaron did, but Roberto signed the erroneous card and was disqualified.

I was watching and was crushed. I had been pulling for Roberto all the way.

Nobody came out a winner.

Bob Goalby - who played a brilliant tournament and deserved a shot at a playoff- will forever have an asterisk next to his name.

But those are the rules of the game and Roberto accepted the outcome graciously.

Incidentally, Trump got more votes- a lot more- than Bill Clinton did in 1992- hmmmm.