I left in 1997, and haven't visited since.
You get used to it.
You get used to it.
It sucks, very very badly. I wish I could stop going back. But all of my people are there, almost without exception.
The US may be far from perfect, but it's important as a country founded upon the right ideas. If it crumbles, we all lose, regardless of where we live.
There's no un-ratcheting the loss of freedoms there. It no longer has basic liberties or the rule of law, and it's actively dangerous to anyone trying to bring about changes to that status.