I think those that didn't properly vet him for everyone else hold a lot of blame, too. So many people in the media knew exactly how awful he was, at least as far back as the 80s. And they even gave him a game show for a while.

That game show did a lot of damage to this country, that's for sure.

But let's be fair, if it wasn't going to be tiny d, the cons would have pushed up a Palin or a Boebert or a Marge (or, more likely, a male version) and thanks to our bullshit way of voting in Presidents, might have succeeded instead of it being tiny d. Because having Obama as President drove them absolutely nuts.

We (anyone not alt-right) are to blame too. We click and watch and view stuff with the rest of them...