what the rest of the civilized world thinks of america now...

Pretty spot on. This is the lowest low America has ever hit.

To be fair most of the world has been highly critical of us all along no matter what we did or do..
In fact, our extreme polarized polevaulting from one extreme to the other is exactly what creates the cycle of going from one extreme to the other whenever the other extreme doesn't work. Back and fourth.
And extreme one sided points of view never work because they exclude everyone that doesn't think just like them...Sort of backward to expect everyone to think just like oneself, isn't it? And to stereotype everyone that does.

We'd all be better off if we'd compromise and not let political figures keep us at each others throats. Us being adversarial towards one another keeps making them, right or left.. stronger. And us weaker.