Yeah. I'm not holding my breath, but I sure would like to think that we're better than this.
We're not.
There was this great line in the Series "I, Claudius", where Claudius remarks that Caligula is "Sick in the Head". His mother Antonia remarks, "No, Rome is sick, sick in her heart. Caligula is just the rash it's broken out into."
Trump is just the rash America has broken out into. A decent country would agree, Trump is mentally unbalanced, he clearly broke laws, and he needs to go.
When America was healthier, this is exactly what they did to Nixon. Not that there weren't massive political divisions... those were worse than they are now, with Vietnam and Domestic Terrorism and Race Riots. But everyone could agree, Nixon's paranoia and corruption made him unfit for office.
Today. We have Republicans who know Trump is unfit for office, but then would have to admit they made a horrible mistake letting him become president to start with. They've spent the last 40 years using homophobia, misogyny, racism to get working class white people to vote against their own economic interest... Trump is just this toxin in concentrated form.
You have a view of the US federal government with partisan colored glasses.
1. Using the "I Claudius" analogy, Trump is the strong medicine necessary to undo the damage the Obama admin did to the US. The "swamp" or deep state, had taken over the Federal government and was misusing it for political advantage. From "Lois Lerner" using the IRS to punish conservatives, to Comey misusing the FBI and Brennan and Clapper misusing the CIA and other intel agencies to defeat Trump, to an MSM being used to spread propaganda, to deep state plants wearing wires or leaking or setting up investigations using fake "oppo research" to get FISA warrants to illegally spy on the opposition parties' campaign. So "Operation Crossfire Hurricane" has become the biggest political scandal in US history. Trump saved the Federal government from becoming the political tool of the democrats.
2. Trump is one of the few Republicans who could have withstood the onslaught of attacks from the Federal government. Trump is a billionaire not a lawyer or politician, Trump is the perfect president for this time in history. He changed the Republican party from "K-Street Conservatives" to "populist". Trump is running the Federal government for the benefit of the people instead of for "establishment politicians" of both parties, who make fortunes taking bribes to benefit Wall Street, while the people suffer.