Could there be post-election violence in the United States?

Hopefully the losing side in this election will do what sports fans and gardeners do.

Gear up for the next election.

Of course it did come close to working.

Of course, there will be violence.
The question is: will there be losers' violence or winners' violence? I would argue that losers' violence would be better than winners' violence.
Because, we can deal with the frustrated violence of a looser, which is temporal and will be contained as people must eventually make a living and go back to work...
It is the self-righteous violence of the winner, who all of a sudden feels empowered and justified to nurture his or her fearful nightmares: build walls, lash out on minorities, denigrate women or deport immigrants.
A victory violence will be dark and legitimize the ugliest side of humanity's unconscious (blind) and populist (uninformed) psyche.
Sure, there is plenty of reasons to be frustrated: lack of jobs or prospects for social advancement, lack of buying power or export economy (the triple deficit), absurd disparity between the insanely rich , the disappearing working class, and the middle class who sees standards of living disappearing and who are just scraping by,...
There is a general feeling that corporate America and elected America has sold out the middle class for their own elitist benefit.
This is the recipe for lynching mobs or the guillotine: Off with their heads! Let's burn the house down.
History is filled with these kind of social upheavals, and after its own Revolutionary and Civil Wars and Civil Right movements, the US of A is no exception to the pendulum of history, which will strive for equilibrium through time-proven corrective mechanisms. History repeats itself, and violence is part of the solution when social systems fail.
But our social system is filled with checks and balances.
And there is no way a majority of intelligent women, men, minorities and recent immigrants will vote against the sanity of a secular and educated social order.
A majority loves America's constitution and institutions too much for that.
So, we will have losers' violence, and it will be quenched and forgotten.

Hello there

Your position is completely defensible. Like a fortress of some kind, with stone walls, a moat, and a drawbridge.

But none of those checks and balances apply to Hillary and her cronies, and everybody knows it, which is why we could easily end up with extreme levels of violence if she wins. All those checks and balances were added as safety features so necessary corrections could happen early, predictably, and often, so that the fabric of society and government doesn't rupture. Hillary and her minions think they're being very clever by rigging and bypassing each and every one of those safety systems, and the result is going to be the explosion the Founders sought to avoid.