The country is a mess. There is no hope that it will right itself in a month, or six months, or ever. So what should you do?

Write something. Write a poem, or a letter, or an essay, or a short story, or a book. It doesn't have to be a screed or a solution or an award-winning piece of literature. 

Writing is cathartic. Focusing on putting "the best words in the best order" is calming. The end result is a lessening of stress. There, you tell yourself. I wrote it down.

You might improve it later. You might delete it tomorrow. You might send it to a friend or pitch it to an agent. None of that matters in the moments when you're writing. We write for ourselves, trying to put a piece of who we are into written form.

Try it. It always works for me.