It's not really hype. Just looks at the results last night.
The nation is divided because of conservatism. Some people refuse to let go of the past and archaic ideas/opinions that have no place in a modern "civil" society. We're (supposedly) no longer cavemen and cave women. But we often don't act like it. Yesterday is a reflection of that, and a setback for many tomorrows.
That's only so if you want to look at it that way. I don't see this "cavemen and cave women" thing at all.
Half the country feels that the extreme left doesn't really equal a "modern civil" society...rather it is viewed more as society that wants to live on the edge of reality and endlessly push the boundaries of what is acceptable in a "modern society".
IMO...8 years of Obama has blown up the race issue more than ever...and it's also created this extreme divide.
The left has done everything it could to distance themselves from the other half the country....there was never any effort on their part to find a middle ground.
It's this constant attitude that extreme left thinking and living is what should be the norm for all.
Sorry...but there are many who believe that view has not been very positive for the USA, and I think Trump will surprise all his critics and be more of a "uniter" than Obama ever was, or that Clinton ever could be.
Also...you have to let go of campaign rhetoric at this point. Clinton was slinging mud as much as Trump...it was a dirty fight....OK...but now there is one winner, and the campaign is over, and in January it's a new start.
If the left is going to go all "melodrama"...declaring the "end of the world" and all that nonsense...much worse than the right ever did when Obama won...what's that going to solve?
Trump is the new president. Give him the same chance to start fresh that everyone asked for Obama when he won...and would have asked for Clinton had she won.