Oh, there’s definitely blame to go around, but not holding Trump to at least some standard would be compounding the mistakes of the past.
No one can argue someone else out of being a Trump supporter, but I still believe there’s a chance to justifiably mock him enough to maybe change some minds. If more coverage focused on how laughably batshit insane he was instead of “ooh, look, he’s not following convention and he’s breaking the rules” it would help a lot. His lot can’t abide weaknesses and he’s definitely weak.
Unfortunately that kind of thing is probably only going to increase as we get closer to Election Day.