Honestly, editing is not great on a laptop as they lack a lot of the power needed to do it well.
Don't know myself, but apparently macs are decent at editing or so I have heard.
Honestly, if you are not enjoying it anymore then why are you doing it? YouTube is meant to be enjoyable, if I ever felt that it was getting boring then I would stop, as I want to do things that I enjoy.
Could be a number of things.
Try plugging it in to a different socket, so a different USB slot if it is USB. If it continues then try it on another computer, if it continues then it is the mic, if not then it is your PC.
Could be a power thing in regards to the USB not getting enough power or...
The funny thing with the protests is that they calim that no one in their state wanted Trump, yet you look at the numbers and millions voted for trump in their states lol.
I use OBS Studio, the classic OBS in my opinion is terrible but the studio version is great. Has its small issues but they always get resolved by the devs.