So, it used to be annoying that half a dozen of my friends posted insane political memes and conspiracies. Now their behavior is the rule, rather than the exception.
Folks, the Republic was set up in a fairly diligent manner — expressly to stop or slow wild behavior among any of the three branches of government. No one of either party is going to easily set up some sort of dictatorship… in fact overreach tends to just make the over-reacher less effective in practice.
That all being said, what could be dangerous to the Republic is when average people become militantly polarized and start believing that the Republic is in danger if the other side is elected. This opinion is — if Facebook and PEW are any indication — incredibly widespread.
I guess I’d close by noting that for all our faults we have a good thing going on here in America. Let’s not start hating each other so much that we screw it up. Chill-ax.