Frankly, those of us on the blue side have a pretty good track record. Not perfect, but pretty good. Then, there is Red America. Let's not kid ourselves with some kind of equivalence: “oh, both sides have this issue”. It's not remotely close.
Sure, Trump is bad and his sycophants in the media are bad. But they are symptoms. The disease is the people who put them there and have been keeping them there, by not holding them to account: Red America.