We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Discernment is God's call to intercession never to faultfinding.
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.