"My extended family wishes for me to return to Italy for my own safety"

This is ridiculous. As long as you stay out of high-crime ghetto areas, you are as safe in America as most places, moreover, the crime rate has been dropping for 30 years.

Trump hasn't changed anything aside from possibly creating conditions for some protestors and police to be clashing.

Also - consider that a slightly conservative Supreme Court is not really 'out of step' with America, just one side of America.