The Democratic Party strategy to re-elect Joe Biden as U.S. President was simple and stark: Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, so it is the constitutional duty of all patriotic Americans to stop him ever returning to the White House . Vote for Joe! Given Trump's behaviour on January 6, 2021, when he did nothing - until it was almost too late - to dissuade a vast mob of his supporters from storming Capitol Hill to overturn the 2020 presidential election, it was a legitimate strategy with traction among voters. The polls showed it. America's overwhelmingly pro-Democratic media pushed it. And it has been smashed to smithereens by the very people who devised it.
