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It absolutely can be blamed on him, and saying it can't is either ignorant or making excuses for him and his ilk.
He normalized so much shitty behavior, manipulated the Republican party into being even more shameless than they had been previously, and finally completely untethered politics from reality. Just look at how behavior changed around the time he entered politics and they realized that you can do anything with a cult of personality and a base of thoughtless dipshits who parrot every dumbass thought you have as gospel.
That's not to say he's entirely responsible, but he is the nexus point of dozens of shitty subcultures that were amplified and directed by him, leading to where we are today. If we'd gotten someone like Rubio or Jeb! in 2016 (assuming Hillary still fucked up her campaign and ignored half the country), the world would look MUCH different.