DONALD TRUMP [should be] DISQUALIFIED

Turns out democracy has its flaws when a large portion of voters are poorly educated and make irrational decisions based more on emotions than fact or logic.

The bigger problem by far is that that flaw is not necessarily innate, it is cultivated. Stupid people are, obviously, much easier to control. Some people claim that dems give all that "free" pomegranate away as a method of buying off votes but I think it goes down to an even more fundamental level; people that don't have to work for anything are more likely to be lazy, people that are lazy are more likely to allow their mental (and physical but not relevant to this) capacities to slip, and people that allow their mental capacities to slip...well, that loops into "making irrational decisions based more on emotions than fact or logic", as you said.

People can go on about elaborate schemes and conspiracies all day long, but occam's razor generally holds true; the best made plans are simple. There's no need to try and buy off votes and risk potential scandal when you can just make everyone stupid and appeal to them with flat lies that they no longer have the mental capacity to be suspicious of, or if they are suspicious of it, they don't truly understand why so they ignore it.