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Candidate wins in a landslide election against someone who had not won any votes in a presidential campaign on her own merits ever and you call that game over for democracy?
That wasn't a landslide. To see what a landslide looks like, look at 1972.
Or 1984[0]:

   Reagan was re-elected in the November 6 election in an electoral and popular 
   vote landslide, winning 49 states by the time the ballots were finished 
   counting on election night at 11:34 PM in Iowa. He won a record 525 electoral 
   votes total (of 538 possible), and received 58.8% of the popular vote
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidentia...
OK he still won. Unless you will claim, like MSNBC already is, that it was stolen by the Russians.
Where do you see that?

(not that MSNBC is a monolith, but) This article claims exactly the opposite: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-steal-elec...

> Trump didn’t need to file frivolous lawsuits before federal courts. The Supreme Court wasn’t given a chance to throw the election his way in a redux of 2000’s Bush v. Gore. The false bomb threats to polling places that have been ascribed to Russian actors don’t appear to have had any measurable effect. There’s been no reporting that indicates that the promised hordes of MAGA-trained poll watchers blocked any Democratic voters from casting their ballots.

> He just won.