I see much of that too. I've discussed it with friends and they tend to think I'm delusional, but I can see the possibility that we come out of this for the better sometime down the road. An example i think of is Obamacare repeal, something that had been an imagined thorn in the side of one party faction for years. When the repeal vote finally became reality, people realized the issue was more political than practical and Obamacare was maybe not such a bad thing.
i have heard that the environment and global warming can probably tolerate one Trump term without a major setback, but not two terms. I'm not so sure and tend to think some of the environmental policy will make a permanent mark.
I also tend to think that any bureaucracy becomes bloated over time. In my corporate world we had lay-offs, hiring freezes, belt tightening, and severance packages routinely. Trump seems to be going about this with a shotgun rather than a surgical knife, but some of it has been been a long time coming.
I think Trump's economic policies are dangerous, but I have actively tried to avoid goods from China in the past until it became nearly impossible. They have an authoritarian government with a poor human rights record and their products are often of questionable quality. I'd rather have tariffs on cheap plastic goods sold to Walmart, but I really do not have a problem with tariffs on Chinese goods.