The press and even the president has sort of tried to make it seem like a "both sides do it" thing but there is so much evidence that this level of attack only happens when it's a dem president.
We dems don't like republican policies but when a GOP president wins our reaction is different. We generally hate their policies not so much need to make up stuff about them.
Both Clinton and Obama when they won it was like it was the end of the republic to the GOP or something. They ramped up the anti gov't stuff so much during Clinton some nut bombed the Federal Building and they dialed it back a bit and just concentrated on trying to find something illegal to remove Clinton. Obama they have taken to a new level of disrespect, not only because they have created a truly government hating grassroots who beg to be put in poverty by the rich, but who always actually hate the dem as a person.
Imagine the vote being close and a situation like Bush VS Gore coming up in a state where Clinton friends are in control. There would now be a Cliven Bundy type militia show up to try to stop the recount.
I think one of the most important things Clinton can do as president is do what Obama did not. Actually call out some of this behavior that is leading us down the path to a new civil war possibly.