Mark, our country is going through a coup right now, one political party along with subversive communists are attempting the overthrow our nation's President and his cabinet, family, etc. The drama on tv is what draining the swamp, getting rid of corrupt politicians and their enablers, looks like. War is not pretty.
No patriot would have tolerated this had it happened to our last president. This is a battle over Liberty versus Tyranny. Every time Congress meets and passes a bill (law), our rights are chipped away at. There's sometimes an ebb and flow as we're experiencing now in the auto industry. No longer will California determine for the entire country in essence what kind of automobiles can be made and how. The Feds shouldn't be doing it either but at least one obstacle is out of the way and should bring down the cost of new vehicles someday.
There's a conflict of visions because people have fewer common values between them then ever before, diversity they call it. One group of people believes that our rights come from God and that the purpose of government is to secure those rights and that since they come from God, they are inalienable. This means they cannot be changed or taken away. This belief system is what our Constitution is founded upon.
There's another large group of people that reject the Constitution and believe that government, not God, is the highest authority and that the people exist to serve the government which is made up of select individuals who endeavor to control the lives of their subjects by granting and suspending rights. Liberty versus Tyranny.
Our family is split as well, just as it was in the 1860s. Mark, if you paid more attention to the President's opponents, you'd better understand why he is doing what he is doing. I say this as your friend, to exhort you to watch the other side so your view of what's going on is not so distorted.