What respect? It failed us. As you yourself point out, perhaps media played a major role in a Biden victory. Does it not frighten you that nearly half of us believe trump’s lies? Pant and froth hate at his urging? Are naive or ignorant enough or desperate enough to swallow that a bankrupt billionaire ( oxymoron!) will enrich them miraculously?

The morass of depravity that we are still immersed in which trump coalesced, showed us the true face of swathes of America. It’s frightening.