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> The public had clearly voted against immigration and free trade. At that point, the job of the federal bureaucracy was to put aside their own views about whether immigration and free trade were good things, and use their skills to implement the agenda of their duly elected new boss.

You mean a new boss put in place by an Electoral college, which didn't represent the majority of the people? Majority of the country didn't vote for the 2016 President

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You mean the guy who won the only contest that anyone was trying to win? You can complain that San Francisco would have won the Super Bowl if field goals were only two points but we have no idea who would have won under different rules.

Trump won the vote that determines who represents the people in the federal government. There is no separate election where the candidates campaign to win the most absolute number of votes. You can add up the state-by-state vote totals, but that’s a meaningless number because nobody is trying to win that.

Fun fact: if you want to talk about different ways in which we don’t select the executive, it’s interesting you overlook the most common one in advanced democracies: the number of party votes or seats in the legislature. Trump would have won that too, both in seats and by 2 million total votes.

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