The people did rule; we had a national election in November, 2012. The Electoral College voted in December. A Joint Session of Congress certified the votes of the Electors, without any objections and the Chief Justice administered the Oath of Office in January.
All the subsequent events of which you speak presume a legitimate action beforehand. In absence of that, it is garbage in = garbage out.
The people can only be regarded as having "ruled" if they were given the facts and evidence prior to their decision. In this nation that no longer happens. All means of addressing the American people are in the hands of Liberal Democrats, and very little derogatory information about their preferred candidate is permitted to reach the consciousness of the voters.
Every Liberal Democrat in Media swings many thousands of votes on the basis of their advocacy. The Democrats in the media industry both deny access to information regarding their favored candidate, and mercilessly attacks the opposition candidate. Beyond that, vote buying and vote fraud tips the scales even further.
You might be suffering under the delusion that our elections are free and fair, but this is not an accurate assessment. Our system is badly broken, and we simply need to acknowledge the fact and look for a subsequent solution.
I personally think it is too late to repair, and it will likely have to be decommissioned. We appear to be heading toward financial collapse, and shortly thereafter, bloodshed.