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I would like to see firm proof that the majority did choose this.
The majority didn't. I crunched the numbers under this post.
R's garnered some ~32% of the eligible vote, while D's got ~31% and I's ~1%. The other ~36% of eligible voters didn't vote.
So it's more like 1/3rd of the US electorate voted for this, far from the majority. You're correct.
A better way to put it is that a large enough fraction of voters chose this to make their seizure of power somewhat plausible. Even by the official numbers, trump didn't get 50% of the vote and nowhere near 50% of eligible voters. And that's with all the acknowledged and undebatable fuckery like gerrymandering and voter suppression that went on, even if they didn't actually rig the election in any way - something that of course they would never do because they have a principled faith in democracy.