Disclaimer: take this with a grain of salt, I’m just one person goofing around in one state, and this isnot particularly representative of the other 49.
Online politics and news has become so polarized that it’s easy to believe that Democrats and Republicans are duking it out in the streets but it’s an exaggeration.
Even though I’m American I actually mostly keep up with European news mainly because relative to US politics it’s extremely civil, and actually productive. I feel as though most US news stations, regardless of their alignment, it’s some reporter frothing at the mouth ranting about the other party and whatever shenanigans they’re up to.
In the real world it’s pretty tame, I’ve been to New York, DC, Boston, Baltimore, San Diego and also London plus a few towns in Wales and they’re all comparably uneventful. Even though I’m pretty anti-Republican I’m still friends with some of them, some Democrats too and even some hard core communists, even though I think communism is stupid.
I will definitely say that our government(s) does some real stupid shit but if I’m gonna be honest, people don’t really care. We are just here to live our lives and we don’t really participate in political squabbling (at least not in the real world). Also in my experience, a lot of America hating Americans are usually influenced by others online, not by real world experiences.