I'm not saying that the founders wanted someone specifically like Trump, though of course they did envision wealthy men in positions of power. But those today who clutch their pearls over "democracy" and "norms" are actually, perhaps ironically, yearning for a stable plutocracy. Many cry over January 6 2021, but I wonder why we didn't have a new American revolution on December 12 2000, for example. The answer could be that Al Gore had more loyalty to plutocracy than to democracy, and was rewarded with great wealth after leaving office, like Clinton and Obama too.
What could be worse "from a liberal PoV" than the Supreme Court, on a 5-4 party-line vote, stopping the recount in Florida and thus giving the 2000 election to Bush, who then went on to become President for 8 years?
Even Hillary Clinton doesn't dispute that that she lost the electoral college in 2016, democratically, according to your definition. She conceded on election night.
January 6 was ugly, but Trump still left office at the end of his term.
> I don't know understand the goal of projecting it as always being bad. I think that hides nuances or details that matter.
The goal is to break you out of a dogmatic slumber, in which you seem to think that everything was basically ok until Trump came along. It wasn't.