It may be mostly their own fault that so many people didn't know what Trump was planning to do, or how corrupt he and his people are.
But they were deliberately misinformed by the Murdoch family's Fox "News" and its right-wing media collaborators.
And they were deliberately ill-informed by traditional journalism, which so thoroughly normalized Trump-style extremism and refused to take a stand for democracy.
Fox et al are simply evil.
The New York Times et al? Complicit.