One could argue that it's not really a democracy when the winning candidate is 2.8 million votes short, you know. Yes, I know, rules are rules - but if rules admit the validity of such an outcome, how much of a democracy is it, really?

One could also remember that many famous tyrants came to power through a fair democratic process. Erdogan is one such example, Putin is another. And, of course, there was that whole thing in Weimar Germany. Which just goes to show that democracy can sometimes be oppressive, and fighting that oppression amounts to "treason against democracy".