From the other side of the world it is very saddening to see the great USA tearing itself to pieces. We believed there was "something" about the US that held to the idea of better world view. It seems that the election of Mr Trump has divided the nation permanently.
Not for us to say right or wrong but we do observe a decline in government policy that holds things like achieving greater public good, sense of high purpose and moral leadership to be important. The US government used to be the "stand-out" on such things but I fear the neo-liberalism of Thatcher and Reagan, which preaches an "every man for himself" has taken hold throughout the West.
Anyway, good luck, and there's always New Zealand. (US nationals are second highest group migrating to New Zealand currently, Chinese being the largest. No, I'm not a New Zealander)
Don;t believe every liberal article you read. Except for the political class, the rest of us are busy 98% of the time dealing with grandchildren, credit card debt, weddings, finding a better job, death, and birth, finding a good new restaurant to eat at and other family and social pastimes. My direct involvement with politics recently is that I voted last Saturday for a bond issue to finance a new fire house and fire engine for my town. No, they didn't ask me for ID when I voted. I just told the person my name, she looked it up and gave me the ballet to vote with. I asked her if I could vote for my wife too since she couldn't make it. She laughed but drew the line there.
I do agree that there seems to be more angst. People are more on edge. But I remember the 1960's and 1970's with the Chicago riots at the Democrat convention, cities burning down when Martin Luther King was assassinated, Black Liberation Army blowing things up, the Weathermen, Vietnam riots, Kent State, Mutually Assured Destruction as the Soviets and Americans had their ICBM's on instantaneous launch. Personally I was an airman in the Strategic Air COmmand where we had B-52 Bombers with A bombs on 15 minute launch alert in case the Ruskies attacked or we decided to attack first. So I was personally involved in the insanity. But things worked out. The Soviets are gone, Eastern Europe is free, Chicago is dealing now with a gang problem, and American is still standing a free nation. There's Medicare and Obamacare and loads of other benefits to achieve "the public good" whatever that means. People speak down other people and are asking them to leave restaurants. At least they're not shooting them or blowing them up like back then. Well mostly, anyway.