"I'm surprised that every time Spicer justifies some outrage by saying that it's what Trump campaigned on, and what 'the American people' elected him to do, that some reporter doesn't point out that more people voted against than for him. They don't, though ...."

Agreed. And I'm also surprised when the fact that he's carrying out the things he said he would is regarded as in some way virtuous. The things he said he'd do were all bloody awful. If I promised to cut off the bollocks of all male prisoners, pour encourager les autres, and carried it out, you wouldn't exactly be praising me, would you?