Yes. Their whole job is defending the republic and in the easiest to win election they succumbed to the ego of a bumbling old man and failed to lead on anything at all. Those fools couldn't sell bottled water in a desert.
You absolutely can blame the goalie for failing to defend the goal.
Sounds like blaming the abolitionists for slavery. Or blaming the police for murder since they didn't prevent it.
Every terrible thing Trump does is really somebody else's fault.