Don't just take it from me: take it from New York Times Magazine contributing writer Jason Zengerle, writing in the New York Times Sunday book review section: "In the realm of policy, what the Trump administration is doing to America, so far at least, is not as horrible as you feared."
That's a low bar, given how horrible the fears were that were voiced immediately after the election. And it also makes certain assumptions about the Times readership — the "you," in the sentence — presuming that they feared Trump rather than hopefully anticipated his policy changes. Even so, give the Times credit for acknowledging what a lot of its readers (to judge by the "worse than I feared" online comments on the review) can't get themselves to accept.