This quotation and article deserve their own post:

“Could it be that the Donald has emerged from the populist circuses of pro wrestling and New York City tabloids, via reality television and Twitter, to prove not just Plato but also James Madison right, that democracies ‘have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention … and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths’? Is he testing democracy’s singular weakness — its susceptibility to the demagogue — by blasting through the firewalls we once had in place to prevent such a person from seizing power? Or am I overreacting?” (Andrew Sullivan: America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny)

No, you’re not overreacting. This is not “democracy gone wrong”; this is democracy itself, in all its g[l]ory.