You talk about 2008 and 2016, meanwhile I was awoken to the lack of democracy in 2000 when the Supreme Court appointed Bush as president despite Gore getting more votes. They did this because of some convenient voting irregularities in Florida, a state that George's brother Jeb just so happened to be governor of. And I'm sure older people than me might cite other years, like when Democrats conspired to make McGovern lose to Nixon or when JFK was assassinated. The USA hasn't ever really had legitimate democracy.