I get it... and I earnestly agree with most of your sentiments. I'm probably just clinging to hope that people aren't such disappointments as to WANT it, so much as "not care enough" to avoid it. (If that is even somehow better)

He didn't, he got 49.8% of the votes cast for president. "Majority" means "more than half", and no candidate got a majority of votes. In a lot of electoral systems around the world, it'd require a subsequent runoff election.