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Irrationality isn't an excuse. To me, blaming the media for Trump is like blaming candy makers for obesity.
Why not blame both?!
It's quite the hypersimplist take to look for a single entity to blame on a complex social subject. Blaming only Trump for this is like blaming murders in the US on only the murderers, ignoring the policies on guns in that country that make it more likely that murders get commited: those who only blame the murderers, by being bound by such an axiom, can only conclude that lower murder rates in other countries are because human beings in the US are somehow more prone to murdering that elsewhere, an interesting conclusion.
Shits do shit because they're shits AND because they can, because they get away with it, because they're better off doing shit and even because doing that kind of shit is lauded by the wider society. Only the first condition is due to the shits themselves, so you need to look elsewhere to find out why the remaining conditions are also true.
I don't blame the media because 'pussy grabbing' and 'I like soldiers who didn't get captured' and all the rest were covered extensively.
The truth was out there, people chose to ignore it.