I'm going to take to take "Our need to find someone to blame" to a different direction.

There are many political writers on Medium easily blaming the state of the USA on Mr. Trump, his sycophants, and his base for what is wrong with USA. Yet these same people are really not taking much responsibility for how the USA got to this state.

I have written an article on the state of political mental illness in the USA. The left is just as sick as the right.

https://medium.com/tiered-democratic-governance/combatting-political-mental-illness-daceee96d725