The fault is in our nation. We must come to the realization that America is deeply racist and sexist, incapable of electing a Black, Asian woman to its highest office because of our culture’s innate, widespread, and unreconciled bias and hatred. That is the root of it. That is the weed that will now grow unkempt no matter how much media wish to groom the nation to make us look as if it were not so. Its aims of oppression will grow daily.
That. This outcome isn’t an accident.
It’s not algorithmically-curated social media, or Fox News, or right-wing misogynist podcast hosts that swing elections. Each one is merely a symptom. None of these would exist if there wasn’t an audience big enough and receptive enough to these thoughts and opinions. That audience is made of real people, who keep these platforms going, by spending time on these platforms, consume and sometimes create that content. This isn’t a chicken-or-egg problem, the thoughts existed long before the internet and Fox News, they just manifest more publicly now.