Republicans made a huge mess by politicizing everything. This article in the first line starts by assigning blame to "liberals" (like liberals are one entity?) Americans voted in chaos and got their chaos.

If we had leaders we could trust, and weren't turning every little thing into a political game with two sides pitted against each other we wouldn't have a media that's already primed to be calling out that administrations constant bullshit. I don't know how else you could have expected anyone to act? We don't trust you, and now in hindsight we were all expected to put trust in a theory that came with a side of racism? Boy who cried wolf in real life, it has consequences as we see.

If you want to root cause the mess you need to look at why the media responded the way it did and not at the response of the media and the public it self.