We Conservatives Should Take Some Blame Too

[Geee]

PJ Media:

When a political disaster like Donald Trump occurs, there is always plenty of blame to go around. Political correctness made Trump's bullying blather sound refreshingly honest; decades of off-hand nastiness from the left made his nastiness seem justified; the ideological corruption of our news media made his corruption seem minor by comparison; the deer-in-the-headlights paralysis of the Republican Party frustrated GOP voters to the point of madness; the Republican failure to address the concerns of workers hurt by globalization made the workers' anger seem like wisdom. Fred Siegel has an excellent article in City Journal detailing Obama's role in the catastrophe:

 

Trump wasn’t possible without Obama. You didn’t have to be a white, male, working-class voter to be stunned by Obama’s unprecedented assertion of executive power.... It was Obama who showed that ignorance was no obstacle, and sheer demagoguery worked.

All true; all fair. The problem is, with so many things to blame, it's easy to choose your own favorite pet peeve and focus on that without ever taking a look in the mirror. But if the fault is pretty much universal, then some of it must lie not in our stars but in ourselves.