Is it Politically Correct to Critisize the President?

A long as our national leader has the press and opinion polls on his side, detractors are made out to be crazy, insensitive fear mongers. Has criticism of the president been added to the long list of politically correct items? Those who are most upset with criticism directed at the current president and his policies are all too quick to malign and criticize the former. They now feel it necessary to personally attack their own long-time friends over current political issues or what gets posted on social media. Could it ever become illegal to criticize our current president? I think yes if the majority says so. What would make someone like me even think this was possible? Or want to ask the question? I am constantly amazed by the virulent reactions I get from some liberals to my status updates on social media. I have never experienced such levels of hate and anger before in my lifetime. Friends I would welcome civil conversation from having resorted to calling me names, de-friending me, demanding that I not send them links to information sources (even after they had sent me links to their own) and some have even banned me from respectfully replying to their politically charged posts because I questioned their position. I often wonder, how far will these attitudes go? I mean, really, how far of a jump would it be for these feelings and attitudes to progress into support for outlawing thought or speech? How far of a stretch would it be to arrest and imprison those who only speak out against a small simple majority? These are questions worth asking. I hope I have been very careful not to go to a level of name-calling, and hatred in my posts or replies. I want my posts to be thought-provoking and I am not ashamed to have them reflect my opinions. Has it become unacceptable to give an opinion that those in power might be wrong or have flawed policies? Even if their policies are supported by 51-63% of the voting public? Just because a small majority of voters support something does not mean it is automatically right or just. This is a reality that many of our citizens lived through during Jim Crow laws. How easy would it be to force the shoe on the other foot? All too often I hear phrases like, "We won, so get over it!" or "you UN-AMERICAN Republican Rupert Murdock follower." What do these have to do with anything? I'm not even a Republican and I watch CNN just as much as Fox News. I read the Tennessean online. To me, those phrases are only emotion speaking and not reason. I have many liberal friends who I respect very much. I honor their right to hold values and views. I may think they are wrong, but it doesn't mean I want them to disappear, crawl in a hole or not speak to me anymore. When I told one of the haters I have many liberal friends, they replied, "You have liberal friends? I doubt it..." Heaven help us if and when a political group sees their victory as a chance to punish, marginalize or do away with others who don't see things their way. The path to tyranny or anarchy is not so far a road to travel.