LOL.  Like I said I have more positive outlook than you.   Not only will we survive the Trump presidency, we will actually thrive and gain more international prominence during a 8 year Trump presidency and continue it under a 8 year Pence presidency.
My comment about scared straight was not to be about our penal system but about letting  bad things happen to stop even worse things from happening,  Here is another one that doctors do.  Normally you would think that a person going into a coma as bad thing.  However doctors do put people into comas to help save their lives.  Now, can not God who knows so much more than us, be doing some of the same thing when he lets what looks like bad things happen to us?  Also, some of the things are allowing us to make our own decisions.  If you have children do/did you not allow them to make their own choices, even if you felt they were not the right ones?